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My chemistry teacher one time came to class with her daughter. She said, "Class I want you to meet my daughter, Chlorine." My classmates and I began to snicker. We wondered whether her other children are named Fluorine, Bromine, Iodine and Astatine, and that, in fact, their family name is actually "Halogen". In college, I found out that one physics professor named his children after atomic particles and subparticles. At least I'm sure that one of his children is named Atom. It's quite amusing how some people name their children after things related to their field of work. With this blog entry, I would like to suggest names for babies, depending on the field of interest or work of the parents. The list is not exhaustive (of course!). Feel free to give your own suggestions. Is your field not here? Well, why not make a comment and add your suggestions! ***** Like Asymptotes on Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/Asymptotes Follow Asy...

Enjoy this intellectual, musical and visual treat about math and nature from a film by Cristobal Vila . Great presentation concept, nice graphics, good music, and of course, great math!    

It's February 14 . We are reminded of the color red :  the color of love ,    the color of blood ,  the color of self-sacrifice . It is the fourteenth of February . Let us not fail to remember  how special this day is for everyone. For today, we celebrate V-Day . .. ... .... The special day dedicated to the super electromagnetic machine  Voltes-V! V - LETTER NOW!!!

In mathematics, an irrational number is any real number that cannot be expressed as a fraction of two whole numbers. Two of the best-known irrational numbers are pi and e (Euler's number). The decimal expansion of an irrational number is non-repeating and non-terminating. This is not the case with rational numbers (for example 1/4 can be expressed in decimal form as 0.25 - which  terminates with the digit 5; 1/3 , on the other hand, is expressed in decimal form as 0.333333... , in which the digit 3 repeats ad infinitum ). Below is a verse which relates irrational numbers with true love. Trivia Below is an interesting trivia on how pi , an irrational number, is used in the software versioning of TeX , a typesetting software popular among scientific journal-writers. TeX has an idiosyncratic version numbering system. Since version 3, updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end, so that the version number asymptotical...