I made this Cantor set applet for my Real Analysis class. It is nothing fancy, but it saves me from drawing it on the board.
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Applet to illustrate the epsilon-delta definition of limit
Here’s a GeoGebra applet that I made for my Real Analysis class. It can be used to explore the definition of limit: Definition. The limit of as approaches is , or equivalently if for any there exists such that whenever , it follows that .
The danger of false positives
As I mentioned earlier, I’m teaching a first-year seminar this semester called “Science or Nonsense?” On Monday and Wednesday this week we discussed some math/stats/numeracy topics. We talked about the Sally Clark murder trial, the prosecutor’s fallacy, the use of DNA testing in law enforcement, Simpson’s paradox, the danger of false positives, and the 2009…
The Japanese theorem for nonconvex polygons
A couple of years ago I wrote blog posts about two beautiful theorems from geometry: the so-called Japanese theorem and Carnot’s theorem. Today I finished a draft of a web article that looks at both of these theorems in more detail. It contains all that you could want—connections between these theorems, generalizations of them, and consequence of…
Three applets for linear algebra or multivariable calculus
This semester I’m teaching two sections of Calculus III (multivariable calculus) and I happen to be teaching the first four weeks of Linear Algebra. The first couple weeks of both courses cover properties of vectors in Rn. (Of course, just to confuse the instructor and the students who happen to be in both classes, the…
The relative sizes of the stars and planets
My colleague sent me this link which shows the relative sizes of the planets in our solar system and some of the brightest stars in the sky. Not only does it make the Earth look small, it makes our sun look small. Pretty amazing! Just for fun I decided to create an interactive GeoGebra applet…
New applets page
Over the last few years I’ve made quite a few web applets. But they have been scattered all over the place. As a good end-of-semester project I decided to consolidate all of them and create an applets page. Enjoy.
Geogebra applet for families of discrete dynamical systems
As I mentioned recently, I taught the last two weeks of my colleague’s differential equations course. The topic was discrete dynamical systems. I posted links to a few Geogebra applets that I made, namely, applets for illustrating one-dimensional dynamical systems and an applet to generate cobweb plots for the logistic map. This is my third and…
Cobweb plots for the logistic map: a Geogebra applet
A few days ago I posted Geogebra applets illustrating discrete dynamical systems. I was using these in a differential equations lecture that I gave. In the next lecture I showed the students how to draw cobweb plots for 1-dimensional discrete dynamical systems. A discrete dynamical system is a function in which the range is a…
An applet illustrating a continuous, nowhere differentiable function
Open any calculus book and you will find a discussion about how differentiability implies continuity, but continuity does not imply differentiability. The absolute value function is the standard example of a continuous function that is not differentiable (at ). The inquisitive student may ask: how bad can continuous, nondifferentiable functions get? Can we make a…
David Richeson: Division by Zero 