The Taylor polynomial. What an incredible thing. I just spent a few hours in matlab coding up a function to compute cosine using the Taylor polynomial. The Taylor polynomial is a polynomial developed by Brook Taylor, an English mathematician. It is useful for coming up with a polynomial to approximate some other unknown function, of which there is some information available.
My reading list for the evening consists of (note I am double majoring in Applied Computational and Mathematical Sciences and Economics)
- Wall Street Journal - Weekend edition
- The Economist - a very good publication. Well written articles
- Numerical Methods with Matlab - a math textbook for a class I am taking
- My daily scripture study
That should be a good end to a very busy, somewhat sick, intellectually stimulating, errand running, beans and salad for dinner day.
4 responses so far ↓
Livette // April 17, 2007 at 12:02 am
Nice blog!
Scott f // April 18, 2007 at 2:18 am
the weekend edition is especially good. The weekend edition includes Year to Date(YTD) % price changes in stocks for the NYSE and NASDAQ. YTD% changes can be used as criteria in picking “value stocks”, or market overreactions - more useful during the later months of the year.
SJB // April 21, 2007 at 4:38 pm
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-beryl-with-latest-nvidia-drivers-in-ubuntu-feisty-fawn.html
Desktopjunk // April 22, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Thanks, always good posts on your blog!
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