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Category Archives: Mathematics
Due to SCOTUS: The Math of Total Disenfranchisement
Due to SCOTUS: The Math of Total Disenfranchisement The Supreme Court has ruled that it is indeed not Supreme, but that States should determine their own district allocations or gerrymandering. We will review the present consequences of that. One objection … Continue reading
Kavanaugh: One, Two, Three . . . Infinity
Kavanaugh: One, Two, Three . . . Infinity Update: Boy, that didn’t take long. I finished this at 10:30 AM. Now, it is 4:30 PM and there are two new, but anonymous, alleged victims of sexual harassment. One from 1985, … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Midterm Election, Kavanaugh, Mathematics, Supreme Court
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We Need a Mathematics for Obsequiousness
We Need a Mathematics for Obsequiousness Since Trump scores his cabinet, Congress, and reporters on their obsequiousness, we are in dire need of a scale to measure this. We also need to add questions on standard requests for government jobs … Continue reading
Posted in EPA, Humor, Mathematics, Russia, Trump Administration, Trump's Logic
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Is Trump’s Mania Approaching a Boiling Point?
Is Trump’s Mania Approaching a Boiling Point? Mathematically, it could be called a singularity. Physics would call it a critical point or a phase change. As such a point is approached, things take place faster and faster, and the scale … Continue reading
Trump’s Firing of Comey
While the cable, tv news, and the press are saturating the coverage of FBI Director James Comey’s firing, and this insignificant blog is not needed on this, I will continue commenting on this. Part of the blog is just as … Continue reading
A Conversation With Edward O. Thorp at the Beckman Center
A Conversation With Edward O. Thorp at the Beckman Center I watched a Conservation with Edward O. Thorp at the Beckman Center of the National Academies of Science and Engineering in Irvine, California, on April 20, 2017. He … Continue reading
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Finding the Personal Logic Scheme of President Donald Trump
Finding the Personal Logic Scheme of President Donald Trump Logic is a part of mathematics. The standard one we use is called Aristotelian logic. Most people may be unaware that what we call and teach as mathematics is only a relative … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Communications, Mathematics, Politics, Trump Administration, Trump Truthiness, Trump's Logic
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Math of the 2016 Election
This article contains the pdf of the lecture that I am giving to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC Irvine, on Dec. 6, 2016. It started as the math hidden in the primaries, but got delayed until after the … Continue reading
The Basis of Mathematics in Biology and Evolution
The discovery of genetics by Gregor Mendel relied on experiment, and the discovery of evolution by Charles Darwin was based on reasonable arguments, until the discovery of a true mathematical or chemical basis for both in the discoveries of the … Continue reading
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