Obscure Research Blog September Archive

You can find good but dry articles covering the subject, if you have some basses Matrices to build from. If you don't your left scratching your head asking "what was that saying?".

A short, and old (1972), book by Digital Equipment Corporation BASIC Matrix Operations presents the subject in an understandable fashion, using New York Hot Dog Vendors to show how Matrices apply to the real world.

Most relevant today is the explanation of why you would want to square and cube a Matrix to solve Wireless Sensor routing problems.

Title: "BASIC Matrix Operations
Publisher: Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts 01754
ERIC #: ED066000

Request the book from your local library via inter-library-loan if they do not have the book on hand.

Also see our last post on Kiss My Math and past post on Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics.

Actress and Author Danica McKellar, best known for her roles on the television series The Wonder Years and The West Wing has published her latest book Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss.

Ms. McKellar's books are specifically aimed at young girls, in the grades seven to nine.

Ms. McKellar's previous book was Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail.

While Ms. McKellar's books are aimed specifically at girls, Real Men, know that a good foundation in mathematics is one of the prime ingredients to becoming wealthy. So you boys need to put a plan brown wrapper on the book, then suck it up in study-hall.

Also see our past blog on Trachtenberg Speed System of Basic Mathematics.

The new number was actually found last month. Edson Smith, Computing Resource Manager for the UCLA Department of Mathematics summarizes the achievement here, and gives the details here.

"The UCLA Mersenne Prime number is 243112609 - 1. The actual number has 12,978,189 digits. If you're so inclined, long-time Mersenne Prime researcher Landon Curt Noll has made the number itself available here. If you're really, really inclined, he also provides the entire number in English (all 328 megabytes of it) here."