Category Archives: Writing

Dependency Injection in .NET by Mark Seemann

Yesterday I received the eBook of Dependency Injection in .NET, written by my good friend Mark aka @ploeh. I had the pleasure of serving as technical proofreader during production, hence the early edition. If you have not already read it … Continue reading

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College Statistics

Michael Feathers (@mfeathers) posted a link on twitter to a nice little statistics assignment. If you would like to solve it yourselves, stop reading when you get to the mathematics, otherwise it will spoil your fun. Enjoy 🙂 Currently a … Continue reading

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Pythagorean proof

I recently wrote a blog post on beautiful mathematics. Mathematics can be beautiful or pleasing in many ways, one of them being if the proof is elegant. Apparently one of the theorems for which the greatest number of proofs exists … Continue reading

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Playing with LaTeX

Just learned that the plug-in I use to format has an option that lets you control the size of the formula when using displaystyle. Have to try it. with the coefficients Beautiful.

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Beautiful Mathematics

While reading an article on the General Unified Theory, I came across a reference to what the author considered beautiful mathematical equations. It got me thinking: what would I consider beautiful math? I must confess right away, that it has … Continue reading

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Palindromic numbers

I was reading an article about palindromes the other day, and came across a formel definition of palindromic numbers. Although palindromic numbers are most often considered in the decimal system, the concept of palindromicity can be applied to the natural … Continue reading

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Scientific writing

I was cleaning out some old CDs the other day, when I happen to stumble over a copy of my master thesis. My thesis was about the mathematical properties of artificial neural networks and I would never have been able … Continue reading

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