freecounterpoint: Explaining math to the hoi polloi

Saturday, April 03, 2010

Geodesics are especially fun.

Tecumseh said...: Roots is also good. One thing I didn't know is that Cayley already realized that, if you think about Newton's method, you get to something rather mysterious:

The problem is to determine the regions of the plane, such that P being taken at pleasure anywhere within one region we arrive ultimately at the point A; anywhere within another region at the point B; and so for the several points representing the roots of the equation. The solution is easy and elegant in the case of a quadric equation, but the next succeeding case of the cubic equation appears to present considerable difficulty.
CAMBRIDGE, March 3d, 1879.; 4/03/2010 2:42 PM
Mr roT said...: There should be some babe angle here, like the bath that a bikini strap takes...; 4/03/2010 3:46 PM
Tecumseh said...: In Rot's world, everything has a babe angle to it. By definition.; 4/03/2010 4:31 PM
Mr roT said...: Not stories about Bella Abzug.; 4/03/2010 4:46 PM
Tecumseh said...: Warming up to the topic.; 4/03/2010 4:51 PM
Mr roT said...: I win! VCP!; 4/03/2010 7:54 PM
Tecumseh said...: Huh? Rot, Rot, don't get carried away. Take it easy. Relax.; 4/03/2010 9:04 PM
Mr roT said...: I mention the universal attractor of babe-strap ass-geodesics and you then link to a blog about hot right-winger chicks.

Pay up!; 4/03/2010 9:06 PM