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That’s the name of the book which I got today; and I feel this is one theory book which I might be able to read and understand at least a little bit. It goes into some deep issues (computability and complexity) without resorting to heavy-duty math and at the same time, not watering […]

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The Fibonacci sequence is the only sequence
that has more interesting, almost magical proper-
ties than the Morse-Thue sequence. Perhaps we
should bring the two together.

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That’s the sequence I was talking about it in the last post

Read the wikipedia entry

You can write a few simple scripts to generate terms of this series. Try using the Python `turtle’ […]

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Playing with number series can be fun - even binary numbers can form interesting patterns!

[0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1,
1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0,
0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, […]

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After a long, long time, a bunch of students got together at my place yesterday to participate in an online programming contest - http://opc.kurukshetra.org.in/opc/!
They didn’t win any prizes, but at least, they had the enthusiasm to *try* …
If you check out some of the prize winners - you will notice something interesting - many […]

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Russian Mathematician Grigori Perelman has solved the famous Poincare conjecture, an unsolved problem from topology. It appears that Perelman had formulated the proof 4 years back, but it is being accepted only now by the scientific community.
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It’s well known that Archimedes used the idea of dividing a curve into lots of small polygons in order to compute its area. Had they been comfortable with the notion of inifinity, the Greeks would have invented the Calculus much before Newton and Leibnitz. It is also conjectured that their poor understanding of algebra […]

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When people ask me for suggestions regarding simple Python projects which they can do, I direct them to Python for Fun. Chris Meyers has a set of very interesting `intermediate level’ projects on this site; I use his Digital circuit simulation program as an introduction to object oriented programming in Python. I find his […]

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Most school kids consider learning math to be something similar to undergoing torture; this is clearly a problem with the way the subject is taught - as something which only the super-intelligent can understand and which has little practical utility other than providing intellectual exercise. This is clearly not the case; you don’t have […]

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The `Numeric’ module brings in high-speed matrix processing to the world of Python.
Read Exploring Numeric and Pygame

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I am the kind of silly person who spends a minor fortune on books
which I know I would never read beyond the first few pages. During
my pre-degree days, I had purchased the first volume of the famous
Feynman Lectures on Physics under the mistaken belief that the
book will take me on the path towards […]

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