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Polytopia: maths for fun and profit
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A Random Walk Through Several Dimensions. Thursday, April 17, 2008. Maths for fun and profit. Someone who had begin to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learned the first proposition, asked him "What shall I get by learning these things? Euclid called his slave and said "Give this person a penny, since he must make a profit out of what he learns". Stobaeus, as quoted by George Simmons in his "Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics" [0]. But this misses the point - everyone knows. Get f...
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Polytopia: Bad desi jokes
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A Random Walk Through Several Dimensions. Monday, September 1, 2008. Because we are a blog of many facets. We collect desi jokes where the humor is based on word play. All contributions gratefully accepted. 1 What is the most well-informed polygon? 2 Why was the banana lonely? 3 What is the area of San Francisco with all the desi restaurants called? 4 What English word can be represented as gtttt? 5 What do you call a newly elected Bengali politician? 1 The square. Because he had naal-edge.
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Polytopia: Infinite Improbability Drive, San Francisco Edition
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A Random Walk Through Several Dimensions. Wednesday, April 9, 2008. Infinite Improbability Drive, San Francisco Edition. Just got home from an exhilarating drive. We had just re-entered the city from a Northward excursion to buy moving boxes (and that's a story for another post). As we turned left on Bay from the Marina, eastbound traffic ground to a halt. Today is its day in San Francisco. Today, more so than most days, Tibet has vocal friends in the city by the bay. As runners carry the torch on its si...
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Polytopia: The last of the great adventures?
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A Random Walk Through Several Dimensions. Wednesday, April 9, 2008. The last of the great adventures? In which the difference between textbook and reality is illustrated. In my school geography textbook, there was a sentence "In Tibet, where it originates, the Brahmaputra is called the Tsangpo". The Yarlung Tsangpo, often referred to as the highest river in the world, originates at Mount Kailash. The only major river in the vicinity that emerges from the Himalayas flowing east. Somewhere in that gorge, s...
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Polytopia: April 2008
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A Random Walk Through Several Dimensions. Thursday, April 17, 2008. Maths for fun and profit. Someone who had begin to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learned the first proposition, asked him "What shall I get by learning these things? Euclid called his slave and said "Give this person a penny, since he must make a profit out of what he learns". Stobaeus, as quoted by George Simmons in his "Calculus Gems: Brief Lives and Memorable Mathematics" [0]. But this misses the point - everyone knows. Get f...
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Polytopia: hello world
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A Random Walk Through Several Dimensions. Sunday, April 6, 2008. Let's write a blog! Okay, then. What shall it be about? Welcome to the wonderful world of the random walk. Embracing. Wholeheartedly the dictum that it is better to travel. Hopefully than to arrive, this blog will stagger from point to. Interesting point, a whirl of topics knit by no thread. Other than our various fascinations. So, who is this "us", I hear you cry. SitaramIyer (the space. Bouts of being distracted by something shiny.
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Polytopia: September 2008
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A Random Walk Through Several Dimensions. Monday, September 1, 2008. Because we are a blog of many facets. We collect desi jokes where the humor is based on word play. All contributions gratefully accepted. 1 What is the most well-informed polygon? 2 Why was the banana lonely? 3 What is the area of San Francisco with all the desi restaurants called? 4 What English word can be represented as gtttt? 5 What do you call a newly elected Bengali politician? 1 The square. Because he had naal-edge.
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Polytopia: October 2008
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A Random Walk Through Several Dimensions. Wednesday, October 29, 2008. A worm's eye view of the olympics. Now this is not a new opinion (I have felt so ever since the athletes were forbidden to publish their diaries lest someone's "sole broadcacsting rights" be infringed upon, and nothing since has contradicted that), nor is it an isolated one. Personally, while I am neither an athlete nor a sports fan, I am involved in a subculture with similar issues - the world of competitive scrabble. Now, first ...
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Polytopia: a worm's eye view of the olympics
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A Random Walk Through Several Dimensions. Wednesday, October 29, 2008. A worm's eye view of the olympics. Now this is not a new opinion (I have felt so ever since the athletes were forbidden to publish their diaries lest someone's "sole broadcacsting rights" be infringed upon, and nothing since has contradicted that), nor is it an isolated one. Personally, while I am neither an athlete nor a sports fan, I am involved in a subculture with similar issues - the world of competitive scrabble. Now, first ...