Here’s a Holiday Portrait of the Artist As a Camera Man. I’m sure math teacher, Steve O’Keefe, knows the equation that describes the shape of the ornament and his image on it. Here’s a couple photos from the Math Master & Commander’s holiday trip to Longwood Gardens (a truly beautiful place in any season).
Posts Tagged ‘Math’
PhotO’Keefe
Posted in Math, PhotO'Keefe, tagged Math, photography on December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ed(mund)ification – Michelle Solves Equations for Burke.Word
Posted in Community, Math, tagged Math, track on November 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
[Ed: After a long hiatus, Ed(mund)ification is back! Edmundification is a periodic safari in search of the heart and mind of the various exotic inhabitants of the Serengeti that we call Burke. Patterned on Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire, we pose a series of semi-incriminating questions to a BurkeWorld teacher, student, parent, alumnus, or pet. Think [...]
Pi Day Serves up Pie as well as Pi!
Posted in Math, Uncategorized, tagged Math on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today is approximately Pi Day (3/14) – which means that it’s time for another Pi Day extravaganza from the soprano side of the Math Department. Participants were: Nora “no ‘At Last’ on this one because the digits of Pi never end” S. ’10 Rachel “Lady PiPi” Braun dancers Brandy Wilson and Michelle Johncock Zach [...]
The Equation of Love
Posted in Math, tagged Math on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of tonight’s Winter Formal, Burke.Word, scientific journal that it is, presents the discovery of the mathematical formula for determining your chances for finding love. Peter Backus, an American economist toiling away for the past 3 years on his PhD in England (apparently in a library dungeon), had so much free time on his [...]
Canonical Forms: A Mathematician’s View of Musical Canons
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Burke, Math, music, Science on October 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Music, math, Burkies, together? WED. 10/28/2009 – 6:45pm
Carnegie Science Lecture, 1530 P Street, NW (corner of 16th and P Streets).
Noam Elkies
Harvard University, Department of Mathematics
The Blog Big Time
Posted in Education, Math, tagged Math on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Burke. Word’s 15 minutes of fame officially arrived on August 19 when the blog Computational Complexity linked to Rachel’s post on The Pi versus e debate. Computational Complexity… I can’t wait to tell my mother! [Update: Turns out that my link to the Pi versus e debate post was no good. It's now fixed. Sorry [...]
The Pi versus e debate: which is the better transcendental number?
Posted in Math, Uncategorized, tagged Math on May 31, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s become an annual end-of-year event in AP Calculus: the pi vs e debate. This year one student held out for “i” (get real, Sasha! …..that was a really bad math joke, by the way), and debate around the room was vigorous. Most arguments featured information about mathematical properties or historical understandings of these numbers, [...]
The Philosopher ‘Super’ Hero
Posted in Math, tagged books, Math, philosophy on April 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Move aside Wolverine, a new kind of comic book hero is about to blast onto the scene this Fall. Keep an eye out for Logicomix – An Epic Search for Truth. This new graphic novel tells the epic tale of leading early 20th Century mathmeticians and philosophers doing battle with the foundations of reality and [...]
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