Hunter Johnson

Hunter Johnson commented on the post, SAGE, on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Dear Dan,

Thank you for writing such amazing software! I am now a little embarassed about the tone I used in this blog post. At the time I was writing it I was feeling a little exasperated, and also probably […]

Hunter Johnson wrote a new post, Meaning and use, on the site CUNYMath Blog 3 months, 3 weeks ago

A professional mathematician has, through exposure to many trials, become something like a desert creature, capable of supplying “meaning” metabolically by an internal gland rather than imbibing it from without. […]

Hunter Johnson commented on the post, Outliers, Stereotypes, and Others’ Expectations with Professor Janet Liou-Mark, on the site CUNYMath Blog 6 months, 1 week ago

This is very interesting! It reminds me of an article that I recently read in the Notices of the AMS by Darrel Yong:

http://www.ams.org/notices/201210/rtx121001408p.pdf

Dr Yong cites research on […]

Hunter Johnson wrote a new post, Existence, on the site CUNYMath Blog 11 months, 3 weeks ago

I was wandering in my neighborhood bookstore this morning, when I came across a new edition of The Greek Myths, by Robert Graves. Attracted by the cover, and my love of the Claudius series, I decided to bring it […]

Hunter Johnson commented on the post, Mysterium Cosmographicum, on the site CUNYMath Blog 12 months ago

I know!

Even weirder, that guy is Joan Baez’s cousin!

The first time I looked at that website it was like going to the hagga-sophia.

Hunter Johnson commented on the post, About the header image, part 3: New results!, on the site CUNYMath Blog 12 months ago

I was just wikipedia-ing around and stumbled across this article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_tile

Irrelevant except that it also involves tiling, but it’s an interesting (accessible?) tile related problem.

Hunter Johnson commented on the post, Thinking ahead., on the site CUNYMath Blog 12 months ago

It seems interesting to me that 4th grade seems to be exactly where many of our students become lost. Looking through this list of topics, I am reminded of many problem spots I have encountered in our “college […]

Hunter Johnson wrote a new post, Mysterium Cosmographicum , on the site CUNYMath Blog 12 months ago

Why study mathematics? This is a catechism of mathematics education. The correct answer has something to do with the prevalence of mathematics, its applicability, its beauty, and its power.

What kind of person […]

Hunter Johnson commented on the post, About the header image, part 3: New results!, on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 year ago

Brilliant. I love the Settler’s of Catan picture. Is there a n-dim version of this question?

Hunter Johnson wrote a new post, , on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 year ago

In every semester there are times when certain topics arise, and anyone now teaching (or enrolled in) Calc II must be dealing with infinite series.

Two things I like to present are Leibniz’s “arithmetic […]

Hunter Johnson wrote a new post, Circles, Lines and Regions, on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 year ago

Last week when I was trying to sort out a combinatorial question related to my research, I accidentally ended up redoing some fun geometry of the type covered (?) in an undergraduate discrete math, or intro to […]

Hunter Johnson wrote a new post, The Apocalyptic Quaternion, on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 year ago

The feelings that I associate with Quaternions (which I will persist in capitalizing, as an homage to their 19th century origins) are not really professional. I see them as a Victorian curiosity; the kind of thing […]

Hunter Johnson commented on the post, SAGE, on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 year, 1 month ago

Jonas, thanks!

Michael, good points. Maybe the Wubi installer is easier than a virtual machine? That would help with the resources issue. My machine has 8gb but virtualized os’s seem to run well — I am […]

Hunter Johnson wrote a new post, SAGE , on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 year, 1 month ago

Lately I’ve been playing around with the free software package SAGE, which does a lot of things mathematical. Though I think most people will have heard of SAGE, let me give their mission statement as expressed […]

Hunter Johnson commented on the post, Totally Disconnected, on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 year, 1 month ago

Yes, he was here. He didn’t leave much time for questions, but he was really interesting. I didn’t realize how uncompromising his views are– he’s kind of an anarchist.

Hunter Johnson wrote a new post, Totally Disconnected, on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 year, 1 month ago

Last week I went to two talks on my campus. One was by Richard Stallman, one of the founders of the GNU project and thus a co-inventor of Linux. The other was by the Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya […]

Hunter Johnson wrote a new post, Searching for Lakatos, on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 year, 1 month ago

Should a textbook always give the whole truth? Being sticklers for detail, as mathematicians generally are, the answer would seem to be an obvious “yes.”

In some cases it’s even difficult to imagine what the […]

Hunter Johnson wrote a new post, Mathy reads, on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 year, 2 months ago

I once had an undergraduate professor, charmingly bespectacled and pleasantly ill-suited for his chosen career of mathematics, who said that no matter how high one goes in math, he or she would still need from […]

Hunter Johnson wrote a new post, Magical Arguments, on the site CUNYMath Blog 1 year, 2 months ago

There are certain arguments that are beautiful and convincing but not admissible as proofs. They give the right answer, and show in an important way why something should be true, but they don’t pass muster as […]

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