The Derb reports on a serious controversy in the world of mathematics.
Category Archives: Mathematics
What Counts As Science?
Some thoughts from Claire Berlinsky’s father.
I’m not sure that I believe that all men are mortal.
This was interesting today, because I was thinking about writing a piece about Michele Bachmann and Marxists. I’ll let you figure out the relevance.
[Update a couple minutes later]
I imagine on some blogs, it would make more sense to say that Claire is David’s daughter.
Recursion
…and other Escheresque images.
It’s Funnier If You’re German
Schrödinger’s humor.
How Big Is The National Debt?
This big. Scary.
Writing Unmaintainable Code
An extensive guide. He clearly put a lot of work into it.
[Via (who else?) Geek Press]
A Rational Approach To Redistricting
…from Bob Zubrin. Of course, because it is rational, it will never happen.
How To Feed Your Family
…on only ten billion a day. Iowahawk runs the numbers.
AWOL
Where is Steven Chu?
Americans expect leadership from their leaders. Chu has the track record to provide it in this case, yet he is failing to do so. If he is being hamstrung by special-interest pressure within the administration, one would expect that to be a resigning matter. I fear it is more likely that he has succumbed to pressure from his erstwhile allies, the greens, and is simply displaying a lack of backbone.
Yet he should consider what this means for his own plans. The administration’s energy plan, based on the EPA’s draconian regulations against greenhouse gas emitters, depends on a hundred new nuclear power plants being built. The administration knows that that powering America by wind and solar energy is as likely as extracting sunlight from cucumbers, which is why nuclear figures so heavily in the plan. If that option is now off the table — and the Left has been so successful in its opportunistic framing of this issue that it might well be — then there is a massive gap in the plan that can only be filled by coal or natural gas. Secretary Chu will be forced to argue that, if there is a nuclear ban, then the EPA’s beloved greenhouse-gas regulations will also have to be taken off the table. This is a circle that simply cannot be squared.
But then, leftists generally have no problem with unsquarable circles.
[Update a few minutes later]
Since he’s not up to the job, here’s a simple explanation of Fukushima.
Solving The Deficit By “Taxing The Rich”
Sadly for the “progressives,” the numbers just don’t work out.
<VOICE=”‘Progressive’ whine”>But I was told there would be no math!</VOICE>