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Colin McAllister’s Blog
http://cmcallister.vox.com/
A blog from Malaysia about science and technology by a Computer Science and Physics lecturer
- Author: Colin McAllister
- Listed in: Science Higher
- Tags: education Software science internet technology mathematics
Recent Posts
Everything You Need to Know About Black Holes - One Week Late
A lecturer asked me to recommend a web site where students could read online news about Information Technology. One site that comes to mind is eWeek.com. It provides a good digest of recent ICT news, but I have heard it described as...
Rediscovering Straight-edge and Compass Construction
People who haven't had the right opportunity to learn math have something in common with people who were born before math was invented. Perhaps some of the techniques of Euclidean geometry could be revived in a format that is more a...
Promoting Mathematics Via Social Networks
This is a story of the promotion of mathematics and science through social networks, digital repositories and other Web 2.0 technologies. It began in August 2008 when I was inspired by the 1999 Cluetrain Manifesto, and wrote a discu...
Colourised Equations As An Aid To Mathematics
Yesterday, during a discussion about cognition, a colleague informed me that Physicist Richard Feynman perceived colours when he saw equations. "When I see equations," he once said "I see the letters in colors - I don't know why...
Math Accessibility Online - An Open Discussion
The open discussion document Math Accessibility Online (PDF file on Scribd.com) is about support for mathematics, and more specifically algebra and calculus, on Web 2.0 and social networking sites. If you wish to add your opinion to it or modify i......
New Mathematics Problem Solving Group
You are welcome to join the new "Math Problem Solving" group at Mathematics24x7.ning.com. Rashmi Kathuria, creator of the Mathematics24x7 social network, has kindly permitted me to add the discussion group. The social network has 145 members incl... ...
