Blog Of The Month – September 2011

Last month, in August 2011, I awarded (actually I devoted my Love to) Peter Cameron’s blog as  Blog of the month. In this month too, I had created a list of approx. 140 blogs all across the web for the blog of the month,
Here is a list of 10 blogs which are  my personal favorites at this time and I love reading them regularly:

  1. Richard Wiseman Blog
  2. Abstract Nonsense
  3. Mathematics and Multimedia
  4. Maths Is New Black
  5. Mathfail
  6. Climbing Mount Bourbaki
  7. Waqas A Day

Richard's Blog

Richard Wiseman

And Blog Of The Month for September is Richard Wiseman’s  Blog located at
http://richardwiseman.wordpress.com
. He is an absolute puzzler, great author  and his blog involves everything that one, who is not a math major,  may also think and care about.

Psychologist and author Professor Richard Wiseman carries out research into luck, the science of self-help, perception, belief and deception.

He is On Twitter!

He has some vieos on Youtube!

His Facebook Page

Richard Wiseman's Books

His Latest Post is  Five funny signs which he published just today.

Review:

Total: 10/10
Design: 10/10
Content: 10/10
Periodicity Of Content:10/10
Language: 10/10 [easiest]
Content Management: 9/10
Interaction: 9.5/10
View: 9/10


Please note that this selection is personal and I have no affiliation with any organization. Your views are invited in form of comments. I have a huge list of other blogs at My Blogs Page. Have a look.

Last Updated: Sep. 6, 2011

14:24 India Standard Time

Randomness Is Important

Video: Documentary on Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem

Portrait of Pierre de Fermat.

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Not a standard post! This post is a tribute to one of the greatest mathematicians in world history, Pierre de Fermat on his 410th birthday. New to his name? Read this wikipedia article to discover about Pierre Fermat.
His Last Theorem is very famous amongst mathematicians because of its unsolvability. It was unsolved for almost 4 centuries. Learn about Fermat’s Last Theorem here. As a tribute, below is a youtube video created for BBC Horizon programme. This video is Simon Singh‘s moving documentary of Andrew Wiles‘ extraordinary search for the most elusive proof in number theory, i.e., proof of Fermat’s last theorem.

NPTEL: An Innovation in Visual and Online Learning

First of all, Happy Independence Day to all my Indian Friends and followers. This post is about an Indian pioneer in online learning, namely NPTEL.
National Programm on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) provides E-learning through online Web and Video courses in Engineering, Science and humanities streams. The mission of NPTEL is to enhance the quality of Engineering education in the country by providing free online courseware. All videos of NPTEL include the lectures of Indian professors in IITs and IISc and they can be found either on NPTEL homepage or at their YouTube page. On Youtube, the Video Courses are organised as PLAYLISTS under the following Categories:
  1. Core Sciences
  2. Civil Engineering
  3. Computer Science and Engineering
  4. Electrical Engineering
  5. Electronics and Communication Engineering
  6. Mechanical Engineering

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And on their website, these are arranged in a order of Subjects.
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Bellow are two Course Videos, as a demo, one on Semiconductors and other on Artificial Intelligence. It would be better to watch them, before you go for whole.
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Understanding Poincaré Conjecture

A 3D projection of an 8-cell performing a doub...

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Introduction & Statement of Poincaré Conjecture

In 1904, the french Mathematician Henri Poincaré posed an epoch making question in one of his papers, which asked:

If a three-dimensional shape is simply connected, is it homeomorphic to the three dimensional sphere?

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