We own a standard card table that we leave tucked away in the basement until the kids want to have a lemonade stand on the front sidewalk or we need the extra table space for a large Thanksgiving dinner. It is the standard kind with legs that fold underneath it so it is easy to store….
Tag: proof
Bubble diagrams for functions in LaTeX using TikZ
I am teaching Discrete Math this semester (our intro-to-proof course). One of the topics is functions. Not surprisingly my students and I have to draw “bubble diagrams” for functions between finite sets—and we have to include them in LaTeX documents. Rather than simply sketching them in Adobe Illustrator and importing them as graphics, I decided…
Proof that pi is irrational
Have you ever seen the proof that is irrational? If not, I highly recommend heading over to The Math Less Traveled. Blogger Brent Yorgey just posted the last of his six part series in which he gives Ivan Niven’s easy-to-follow 1947 proof of that famous fact. The proof uses only basic calculus.
David Richeson: Division by Zero 