Comments for Mathemafrica http://www.mathemafrica.org All about maths in Africa Sun, 15 Mar 2020 11:17:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2 Comment on Tales of Impossibility – The 2000 year quest to solve the mathematical problems of antiquity, by David S. Richeson – a review by Curves for the Mathematically Curious – an anthology of the unpredictable, historical, beautiful and romantic, by Julian Havil – a review – Mathemafrica http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=16001#comment-1948 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 11:17:53 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=16001#comment-1948 […] The Quadratrix of Hippies – which are tightly linked to the impossible problems of antiquity […]

]]> Comment on Proof by contradiction – part 1 by Elmo http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=12493#comment-1947 Sat, 25 Jan 2020 23:42:32 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=12493#comment-1947 Very helpful, thank youuu

]]> Comment on Simpson’s Paradox by Jonathan http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=15994#comment-1945 Sun, 05 Jan 2020 21:21:47 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=15994#comment-1945 Many thanks Dean. I always find this sort of diagram really helps to show quite how obvious Simpson’s paradox is when you see it in this form, however weird it may be when explained: https://miro.medium.com/max/1516/1*Dj23DyuR9AAD1IkrHUWoJg.png

]]> Comment on Ishango, The Cradle of Mathematics by Tapiwa Chadenga http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=10707#comment-1944 Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:18:42 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=10707#comment-1944 Thanks for the delightful read.

]]> Comment on Ishango, The Cradle of Mathematics by Tapiwa Chadenga http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=10707#comment-1943 Fri, 03 Jan 2020 16:03:13 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=10707#comment-1943 Thanks Ian, I look forward to investigating your suggestions.

]]> Comment on Ishango, The Cradle of Mathematics by Christof Born http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=10707#comment-1942 Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:52:51 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=10707#comment-1942 New speculations about the Ishango bones: https://christofborn.net/

]]> Comment on All you’ve ever wanted to know about absolute values (and weren’t afraid to ask) by First year maths lecture notes subject links – Mathemafrica http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=14953#comment-1941 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 05:15:49 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=14953#comment-1941 […] All you’ve ever wanted to know about absolute values (and weren’t afraid to ask) […]

]]> Comment on p-values (part 2) : p-Hacking Why drinking red wine is not the same as exercising by jonshockhan http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=15773#comment-1939 Mon, 02 Sep 2019 18:03:41 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=15773#comment-1939 Great post, thank you!

]]> Comment on R-squared values for linear regression by jonathan http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=15734#comment-1938 Sun, 18 Aug 2019 19:43:03 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=15734#comment-1938 Really clearly written! Thank you Dean.

]]> Comment on Review: Calculus Reordered by Book reviews – Mathemafrica http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=15609#comment-1937 Sun, 04 Aug 2019 18:28:23 +0000 http://www.mathemafrica.org/?p=15609#comment-1937 […] Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas, by David M. Bressoud – a review […]

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