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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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13 July 2001 - 1:01 pm
Did you know that there is a publication called the Journal of Recreational Mathematics? (Recreational mathematics? It sounds like an oxymoron to me.) I'd never heard of it until today, but I was intrigued, so I decided to do a bit of research. After a little work, I found the journal's website, which was interesting, but didn't really tell me what I wanted to know, mainly the number of subscribers to the magazine, and information related to why such a thing exists. If you visit the journal's website, check out the table of contents for upcoming articles. I'm particularly intrigued by Prime-Poor Equations of the Form I = x2 - x + c, c Odd. (Sadly, I have no idea what a prime-poor equation is, but it sounds a lot like piss-poor, which is what this post is.)
My search through the bowels of the internet continued (Actually, I just looked at Google's first list of results when searching for "Recreational Mathematics." Apparently, Google has a category devoted to this stuff as well.), and I came across this page. Real people have devoted entire webpages to recreational mathematics. I'm surprised, to say the least, but I guess I shouldn't be: I've just devoted an entire -273 post to it.
Posted by on 13 July 2001 at 1:01 PM
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