My lectures in Nesin Mathematics Village can be found via this link. I correct and update them daily. The lectures are mostly based on my book, with some important developments.
Archive for July, 2008
My lectures in Nesin Matematik Köyü
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How did Classic Greeks understand natural numbers?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A commentary to Plato’s Charmaides by unknown scholar describes a clear distinction between ideal natural numbers and numbers used for mundane everyday counting:
Logistic is the science that treats of numbered objects, not of numbers; it does not consider number in the true sense, but it works with 1 as unit and the numbered object as [...]
Thales of Miletus
Posted in Uncategorized on July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am lecturing at the Nesin Mathematics Village. There are no lectures today; a colleague organised a tour of Miletus, ruins of an ancient city where Thales, perhaps the first mathematician known to us by name, was born and lived. I am reading a fascinating old book Aegean Turkey by George E. [...]
Family caring and maths: a comment
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is my comment on my previous post, Now we are fifty. I’ll attempt to decipher and re-write in plain English a long quote from
Michael, R. T. (200 Children’s Reading and Math Skills: The Influence of Family Caring. CLS Working Paper, London: Centre for Longitudinal Studies.
The Centre for Longitudal Studies accumulated [...]
“Now we are 50″
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Centre for Longitudal Studies published a report celebrating 50 years of their study of a cohort of British people born on the same week in 1958, We are 50 now. One of the working papers mentioned in the report is of interest for me:
Michael, R. T. (2008) Children’s Reading and Math Skills: The Influence [...]
Hard lessons: effort-inducing interfaces benefit spatial learning
Posted in Uncategorized on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In short, lessons have to be hard.: an article by Cockburn et al. Abstract:
Interface designers normally strive for a design that minimises the user’s effort. However, when the design’s objective is to train users to interact with interfaces that are highly dependent on spatial properties (e.g. keypad layout or gesture shapes) we contend that designers [...]
On primitive elements of musical meaning
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A wonderful paper by Iegor Reznikoff in The Journal of Music and Meaning.
A quote:
I have been asked to give some insights on how elements of possible meanings of sounds and perhaps music could be found in my studies on the sound dimension of Palaeolithic painted caves. To describe in brief the main discovery, let us [...]
One more cartographic projection
Posted in Uncategorized on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mikhail Zlatkovsky. Facing Eternity.
Under a changed title “Coat Star” the cartoon won first prize at Ken Sprague Fund competition at Earthworks 2008.
Fractal Science Kit
Posted in Uncategorized on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No warranties, I just reproduce a letter. I did not try to install the product, my hands are not in good shape.
Hi Alexandre,
I have just released the Fractal Science Kit 1.0 and thought you might be interested in taking a look. The Fractal Science Kit provides an interactive programming environment with windows [...]
Division of labour
Posted in Uncategorized on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Republished from the old blog, to be used as a draft for a paper I am currently writing.
[Brief notes from my talk at METU, Ankara, 5 April 2007]
In Britain, everyone is already familiar with the new look of a 20 pounds note. Perhaps, the origin of words
The division of labour in pin manufacturing
prominently [...]
