For your Tuesday morning meditation:  what do you get when you cross the Mandelbrot set with Eastern religion? Buddhabrot: Melinda Green made this amazing picture, has more on her website, plus…

Sleep is such an essential part of human existence that we spend about a third of our lives doing it -- some more successfully than others. Sleep disorders afflict some 50-70 million people in the…

The Shortest Path Problem in a Dynamic Network. A method is needed by which efficient new network routes can rapidly becalculated to route traffic away from problem paths and nodes. Apossible method…

This is the second of a two part blog on commutative encryption.Part one was Using Encryption to Block Spam. In part one, I showed a commutative encryption scheme.  In that scheme, the…

Using Encryption to Block Spam Tackling the problem of spam is a problem in communication. If spam is noise as against wanted communications, then the spam problem is a signal to noise filtering…

Well, OK, Excel is not going to replace Matlab or Mathematica or whatever other similar industrial-strength computing tool you use.  But this amazing site shows you how to do some powerful…

Pumpkin warning: to be read before midnight. http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5321

6 out of every 10 university students, regardless their field of study, get anxious when it comes to mathematics, according to a research work carried out at the University of Granada.  There…

DEFINITIONSParcelatories, or Partitions, is a mathematical function of Combinatory Analysis which indicates how many possible forms an Whole Number can be obtained from the sum of others smaller…

This blog is not about music, unless it be the 'music of the spheres'. It is a sad fact that, throughout recorded history, many books have been irretrievably lost. In many cases, had these books…