Misc on Hyperbolicity https://www.hyperbolicity.com/tags/misc/ Recent content in Misc on Hyperbolicity Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US CC-BY-SA-NC Sat, 23 Jun 2018 10:51:00 -0500 Math with Mathematica https://www.hyperbolicity.com/journal/30mma/ Sat, 23 Jun 2018 10:51:00 -0500 https://www.hyperbolicity.com/journal/30mma/ I learned mathematics a different way because of programs like Mathematica. While an undergrad, after lunch I would sometimes loiter in the otherwise off-limits graduate math library. One afternoon I stumbled on Moses’s ACM article on symbolic simplification followed, a few pages down, by his other article Symbolic integration: the stormy decade. Cube roots from the square root https://www.hyperbolicity.com/journal/cuberoot/ Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:06:00 -0500 https://www.hyperbolicity.com/journal/cuberoot/ Last week while rummaging through some old boxes I stumbled on a notebook with a curious algorithm for computing the cube root using a pocket calculator that has a square root button. For the cube root of 8 it goes: