Elementary Mathematical Methods Course

Elementary Mathematical Methods Session 2 Tonight at 8 PM Central Time on Skype and TeamViewer 8.

Elementary Mathematics Course Lesson 1

Di has proposed a Mathematica program to demonstrate some ideas from set theory. We worked on it together and it is now embedded in Lesson 1 at www.madscitech.org/elemath.

Elementary Mathematical Methods - Session 1

Those people who want to register for the course, send me an email at george@madscitech.org. You may connect up with us tonight at 8 PM Central Time on Skype. Use my Skype name georgehrab. If you are not registered for the course, I will not respond.

The Conduct of the Elementary Mathematical Methods Course

The conduct of the course will be like this:
1) Written material will be added each week.
2) Every Saturday at 8PM Central Time there will be a live session via Skype and TeamViewer. This session is very important. Do not ignore this. If you need to get a microphone for your computer, do so. Download Skype, it's free! So is TeamViewer 8.
3) Throughout the week discussions will be held at The Mind of a Theorist - The Blog. These are also important. I can only gauge how you are doing by examining your "homework". The discussions will be where you express issues you are having. It also gives those who understand the material a chance to test out their understanding by explaining things to others.
I have several people who emailed me that they are signing up for the course. Anyone else who is interested, you have until this next Friday to sign up and read what I have put up already. You can sign up by sending email to george@madscitech.org.

Elementary Mathematical Methods for Science Course

The official web site will be here: http://www.madscitech.org/elemath/index.html

New Writing on Information Theory: Some important theorems on Markov Chains, their proofs, and how to model Markov Chains in Mathematica. http://www.madscitech.org/information/information.html

New Information Theory Site on MAST

I have formalized my notes on information theory and placed them on the MAST website. You can find tham at http://www.madscitech.org/information/information.html

The Nature of Information V

In this installment I demonstrate how to determine some of the quantities we have been looking into using Mathematica 8. You can find it at this website:

http://www.madscitech.org/csg/it.html

under Information Theory V.

Lots of Things: Mathematica Consulting to Quantum Gravity to Storm Chasing

It has been a month and a half since my last post. Sounds almost like confession, doesn't it?

I could say that I have been snowed under with work, I have been sick for a week, I have been planning and executing the storm chase from Hell and another that was very successful. I could say that I have been trying to get MAST into the Mathematica Consulting game. I could say that I have been working on a new idea in quantum gravity. All of these things are true, and yet none of them are sufficient.

The truth is that I have been somewhat lazy. For that I apologize. I will not promise not to do it again.

The Book Is DONE!!!

At 05:17 on Monday, 31 January 2011 I finished the first draft of the book Theoretical Minimum I: Classical Mechanics by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky. This book was written in Mathematica 7 and Mathematica 8.

Some new results

MAST has begun to post some research results!

1) I have started to do some dripping handrail models of accretion disks. You can find them here: http://www.madscitech.org/csg/accretion.html

2) James Firmiss and I have begun serious work on neutron star equations of state, results will be put up shortly.

3) Chris Winfield is giving a talk on local solvability at the American Mathematical Society meeting in New Orleans, that talk is located here: http://www.madscitech.org/csg/AMS10mintalk.pdf

4) We are doing research and development of database capabilities in Mathematica, mostly due to the efforts of Rocky Wenz.

More results will be reported as they occur!

Project Updates

Hello!

I have been insanely busy the last week. Had a great Thanksgiving!

Just completed Chapter 9 in the book project, this is a survey of linear algebra. I am about to start in on chapter 10, Leonard Susskind's classical mechanics Lecture 5.

I am also developing the program for the Institute for Scientific Computing Summer School program. I am also working on developing courses for teaching Mathematica 8 online.

That's all for now.

Project Updates

I am about to finish chapter six of the book project.

We (MAST) are planning a Summer School on Computational Physics; this will tentaively be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Physics and will be held from 15 June 2011 to 15 August 2011. Check out the MAST website for details.

We are exploring the possibility of Mathematica training over the web. This will include beginner training all the way up to advanced applications.

Pythagorean Triples

Pythagorean triples are groupings of three integers that each form the sides of a right triangle. I have been playing with their distributions, and have made some plots in Mathematica.  I think these are pretty cool.

New Version of Mathematica Announced

I was just informed by Wolfram Research that a new version of Mathematica will be coming out soon. As I understand it, this version is going to be a big step forward. This version will have built-in GPU support for CUDA, built-in control systems and wavelets, advanced data visualization tools, and a huge raft of other things I have heard about, but have not seen officially so will keep my mouth (fingers?) shut about.

This is exciting news since there is a personal version of Mathematica for only about $300, with a $500 upgrade to the most current professional version. There is no difference between the personal and profession versions.