JavaScript: Random Scripts Using the javascript math object and its random method to create random events . We ll use 5 random quotes, so we need 5 random numbers. http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/jrandom.htm
Extractions: Get random numbers, quotes, etc. JS Main Basics Advanced Complete List ... Advanced /Random Browser Compatibility: NS 3+, IE 4+ By default, the random function returns a random number between zero and 1. This by itself isn't very useful. Click the button below, and notice that the number in the alert is a long random number after the decimal point: Now, the numbers you get will be between zero and 4- but they still will not be integers. Try the button below and see: You can also use two steps if it seems to make more sense: var ran_number=Math.round(ran_unrounded); Now, try this button. You'll see a nice looking integer between zero and 4: Now, you may be wondering why we want the number between and 4, rather than 1 and 5. When we are ready to make a script that uses this, an array is a handy way of getting to a value. Arrays start counting with an index number of 0, such as: Keeping the random numbers in line with the array numbers will save some headaches as to when you should add or subtract the number one to get it working. Now, let's build a little random quote script that will give the viewer an alert with a random quote on a button click. We already know how to get the random number, we just need to use an array to store some quotes- and make use of them with the random numbers. We'll use 5 random quotes, so we need 5 random numbers. This will keep us with our "between zero and 4" theme. Let's begin by creating a function, and setting up a variable to get a random number:
Extractions: Math appears in popular culture THE SUBCULTURE OF MATHEMATICS Mathematics has existed as a discipline since the dawn of civilization, and yet a very small percentage of humanity actually is engaged in doing any mathematics beyond basic addition and subtraction. The group of people who do engage in mathematics is often referred to as "the mathematics community". The definition of community being applied here is "the body of people in a learned occupation" (from Cambrige International Dictionary), however, this group of mathematicians is in many ways might be more accurately described as a subculture. DEFINITION OF SUBCULTURE (from Cambridge International Dictionary) The way of life, customs and ideas of a particular group of people within a society, which are different from the rest of society. It is fair to say that the large majority of the population views mathematics with apathy, suspicion, or perhaps even antipathy. I'm sure you had the experience of being in a conversation with non-mathematicians where the topic of mathematics comes up and someone proudly announces: " I was not good at math in High School", or "I hate math". Can you think of any other area where people are proud to declare their ignorance? Only occasionally do you get: "I loved math in High School." As much as mathematicians try to reach across and communicate mathematics to the world, it seems there is a clear line separating the math subculture from the rest of the world. This math subculture is kept alive and vibrant by working mathematicians but is also enriched by the amateurs who enjoy mathematics and want to participate in the mathematics community.
Science Jokes: Math Jokes And Archimedes Albert Einstein Kids Science quotes math Archimedes Medicine Physics Newton math is like love a simple idea but it can get complicated. http://www.juliantrubin.com/mathjokes.html
Extractions: A student walked into his discreet math class late and in order not to interrupt he put his late slip on the teacher's desk furtively without the teacher noticing. The teacher noticed the slip on his desk afterwards. He commented "I see you put this slip on my desk without me noticing. I guess that's why they call this class discrete mathematics."
KU Mathematics: Students' Quotes What is the academic atmosphere in our math department like? We encouragemore advanced students to become active in research math and interdisciplinary http://www.math.ku.edu/graduate/quotes.html
Extractions: Our graduate students report a friendly atmosphere in which students often work together and faculty take a strong interest in their progress. We encourage more advanced students to become active in research math and interdisciplinary seminars and our weekly colloquium brings in speakers from outside the university. During Mathematics Awareness Month we schedule a series of research overviews especially for graduate students, and sometimes students organize their own graduate seminars. Ricky Lawner: "People love what they're doing. You get a broad background and I think that's really important. One thing that's been great for me has been the opportunity to teach. The amount of autonomy has been really nice." Jennifer Parkinson: "There's a really nice cooperative atmosphere among the graduate students. When we were in the early graduate courses we always helped each other. I'm sure we learned a lot more that way than we would have without that atmosphere. I also learned a lot through teaching calculus - not just about mathematics, but about leadership, speaking in public, and making tough decisions." Arpad Benyi: "Lawrence is a good town. I've been travelling around in the midwest and I guess I felt privileged to come from Lawrence."
JALC - Mathematics Quotes quotes From Former Students I learned a lot from the professors in John A.Logan s math Department. Their professors are great teachers, http://www.jal.cc.il.us/math/quotes.html
Extractions: John A. Logan College Mathematics Award 1999 "I learned a lot from the professors in John A. Logan's Math Department. Their professors are great teachers, and they are accessible with flexible office hours. They not only helped me with questions about the math courses, but provided me with valuable guidance on good courses to take to meet my goal to be a high school math teacher. Thanks to their inspiration I'm one semester away from completing my goal to be a certified teacher of mathematics in Illinois! " Jennifer Jeter John A. Logan College Mathematcis Award 2000 "The Mathematics department at John A. Logan College is outstanding. The instructors are always willing to go the extra mile to help students understand the material. The department did an excellent job of preparing me for the transition to a four-year university. I would highly recommend that anyone who is pursuing a degree related to mathematics consider attending John A. Logan College."
Extractions: Statistically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations , and JavaScript must be enabled to display this email address. The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. Robert R. Coveyou There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up. Rex Stout All models are wrong; some models are useful. George Box The plural of anecdote is not data. Roger Brinner I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic. Winston Churchill You know how dumb the average guy is? Well, by definition, half of them are even dumber than that.
Jennifer Erway, Mathematics, UCSD These are outbursts made by fellow TA s while grading math exams late at night The outof-context quotes This is going to be a bad week for me . http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~jerway/quotes.html
University Of Connecticut - Department Of Mathematics The WWWebpages of the UConn math Department. mathematics quotes. I wish toGod these calculations had been executed by steam. http://www.math.uconn.edu/miscellaneous/quotes.php
Extractions: var winPopUp = NULL; Hot Link: Picnic Sunday Department of Mathematics General Info Home People Alumni Annual Newsletter ... Contact Us Academics Graduate Undergraduate Class Schedules Class Home Pages ... Instructor Materials Actuarial Science Graduate Undergraduate Actuarial Center Research Research Areas Weekly Newsletter Undergraduate REU Math Links Resources Library IT Resources TA Network Dept Web Mail ... Restricted Use Search our Site I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam. - Charles Babbage A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematicians can notice analogies between theories. One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. - Banach It seems to me that your mathematics is very like a jar of mixed pickles. The more you fish for what you want, the less likely you are to get it. - L. Frank Baum Lefschetz insisted that there was difficult mathematics. Einstein said that there was no difficult mathematics, only stupid mathematicians. I think that the history of mathematics is on the side of Einstein. - Richard Bellman
Quotes I have had a series of quotes on my homepage, and rather than delete the old Although I try to only use accurate quotes, there s always the chance that http://torus.math.uiuc.edu/jms/quotes.html
Extractions: I have had a series of quotes on my homepage , and rather than delete the old ones completely, I have collected them here together with the date I first used them. Although I try to only use accurate quotes, there's always the chance that I have made a mistake, and I would welcome any corrections. A useful website on Questionable Quotes debunks some quotes as urban legends. Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. "The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
MAT 007 I News Quotes Edition The 1995 quotes Edition. The following quotations are unadulterated excerpts frommath lectures given by Akcoglu, Hironaka, Kalai, McCool, Milman, Ray Ross, http://www.math.toronto.edu/007/quotes-95.html
Mathematical Quotation Server A collection of mathematical quotations culled from many sources. You may conducta keyword search through the quotation database. http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mquot.html
Extractions: Follow this link to download the entire collection. Of course, you may also access the quotations "page by page". They are organized in alphabetic order by the author's last name. Enjoy! A B C D ... Z Random Quotation Generator Follow this link for a random quotation from the collection. The randomizer was written by Jack Siler at the University of Pennsylvania. Pat on the back department... If you have comments, corrections or suggestions, about either the quotations, their sources, or about these pages in general, please email them to Mark Woodard at Mark.Woodard@furman.edu
A Random Mathematical Quotation A Random Mathematical Quotation. Newman, James R. The Theory of Groups is a branchof mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares http://math.furman.edu/cgi-bin/randquote.pl
Math Trial Quotations. about math, Education, and Life. Handley math Page. Many thanks toJaime GarciaRamirez for his javascript code which powers this page! http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Div/Winchester/jhhs/math/mquotes.html
What Is Mathematics?,a Voluntary Web Poll A Web poll based on math quotations. math·e·mat·ics n. (used with a sing.verb). The study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of http://www.cut-the-knot.org/math_intro.shtml
Extractions: Quotations collected below all reflect on perception of Mathematics by various people over a few hundred years history. Proclus (412-485) had this to say: The Pythagoreans considered all mathematical sciences to be divided into four parts: one half they marked off as concerned with quantity, the other half with magnitude; and each of these they posited as twofold. A quantity can be considered in regard to its character by itself or in its relation to another quantity, magnitudes as either stationary or in motion. Arithmetic, then, studies quantities as such, music the relations between quantities, geometry magnitude at rest, spherics ( astronomy, A.B. ) magnitude inherently moving. Obviously, in the 2500 years since Pythagoras when music was still considered a mathematical science, both human perception of and our attitude towards, mathematics underwent a tremendous metamorphosis. Below I list several quotations - definitions of mathematics - but this is not a quotation page per se . Presenting different views with quotations appears to me less personal and more authoritative. Could you please check the boxes against those quotations you approve of and then press the Submit button at the bottom of the page.
Is Anything Wrong With Math Education? Is anything wrong with math education? This was an early warning about thegroup developing what came to be called the New math. http://www.cut-the-knot.org/manifesto/wrong.shtml
Extractions: Sites for parents Is anything wrong with math education? Yes, something indeed is, as everyone knows. Of the many regrettable consequences that come to mind there are two I believe to be the most pernicious. With overemphasis on drills and standardized multiple-choice tests students (and teachers) develop a perception that To Err is Wrong This is despite the overwhelming evidence that mistakes often serve as stepping stones for correct answers, while failures of expectation form a most basic element of the learning process. When test after test after test, we are conditioned to provide (or select) just one possible answer, the idea that Is There Always One Right Answer? Free vs. Pedantic Thinking becomes deeply ingrained in our process of thinking. It's almost obvious that, in Mathematics, if the sought answer is to prove something then in most cases it is impossible to expect a single correct one. Thus with the current education system Mathematics is being emptied of its most basic and characteristic element - deduction. The system violates two fundamental principles of creativity and learning methodology: Do not be afraid of failure.
Gary McGuire Quotes A Few quotes An existence proof informs the world that a treasure exists withoutdisclosing its Quote me as saying I was misquoted Groucho Marx http://www.maths.may.ie/staff/gmg/mathqu.html
Extractions: I am also uneasy with some topics, mainly in differential topology, where the author draws a complicated picture (in two dimensions), and asks you to accept it as proof of something taking place in five dimensions or more. Only the experts can "see" whether such a proof is correct or not - if you can call this a proof. - Serre
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The Math Forum - Math Library - Quotations The math Forum s Internet math Library is a comprehensive catalog of Web sitesand Web pages relating to the study of mathematics. This page contains sites http://mathforum.org/library/resource_types/quotations/
Extractions: A list of mathematics and education quotations searchable by author's last name, keyword, or description field, and also alphabetized by last name of author, with references and other resources. more>> The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s: An Oral History Project - Charles C. Gillispie, Albert W. Tucker, and William Aspray Information about Einstein, pictures, organizations that bear his name. Biographies, Hong Kong Baptist Univ. and MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive; Einstein's History; Obituary; Information, David Joyce; Einstein's interview with the FBI; Why Socialism? ...more>> Archimedes - Chris Rorres, Drexel University
Thoughts For The Days math. Monthly v. 104, no. 5. It is easier to square a circle than to get round a WS Anglin, math. Intellingencer, vol 4 no 4. His world was an ellipse, http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/R.A.Wilson/tftds.html
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