http://www.embracingchaos.com/2008/01/flashbacks-to-c.html Leo Parker Dirac on Business and Technology Trends Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:21:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.embracingchaos.com/2008/01/flashbacks-to-c.html/comment-page-1#comment-476 Embracing Chaos » Blog Archive » Learning to do Math in your Head - Leo Parker Dirac on Business and Technology Trends Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:34:43 +0000 http://wp.embracingchaos.com/2008/01/flashbacks-to-c.html#comment-476 [...] forced me to look over a lot of the old content I’ve written.  A couple years ago I found Benjamin’s Ted talk, which has inspired all this craziness.  I think it’s good to keep [...] [...] forced me to look over a lot of the old content I’ve written.  A couple years ago I found Benjamin’s Ted talk, which has inspired all this craziness.  I think it’s good to keep [...]

]]> http://www.embracingchaos.com/2008/01/flashbacks-to-c.html/comment-page-1#comment-267 Casey Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:17:57 +0000 http://wp.embracingchaos.com/2008/01/flashbacks-to-c.html#comment-267 <p>This reminds me of a professor I had at Shoreline Community College named Tim Davis. he was probably early 30's at the time and would do long division and multiplication in his head for fun. Apparently it was a game he and his dad (who was a mathematician would play to pass the time). He was crazy funny and liked going on and on about how excited certain equations made him and how depressing statistics books are.</p> This reminds me of a professor I had at Shoreline Community College named Tim Davis. he was probably early 30's at the time and would do long division and multiplication in his head for fun. Apparently it was a game he and his dad (who was a mathematician would play to pass the time). He was crazy funny and liked going on and on about how excited certain equations made him and how depressing statistics books are.

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