Cedars Math: Miscellaneous

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Test-taking music

• Johann Bach's Musical Offering in piano and harpsichord (with scrolling musical notation). A long essay on the Musical Offering with linkage to Leibniz, Newton, and Voltaire; and a short essay that talks about it in connection to Mozart and Beethoven.

• Beethoven's Ghost Trio (1809)

• Brahms's Symphony 1, Karajan conducting.

• A Mannheim Steamroller Christmas. (1984).

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Mr. Rasmusen's notes to himself

• "The Triangle Rhyme," Mathematics Magazine vol. 56 (1983), no. 4, 235-238.

• Queuing theory for You-Tube: Ben Golub's tweet, with comments, and "What happens when you add a new teller? John D. Cook at his blog (2008).

• Math puzzles can be found at Quora.

• A blog post on myriads.

• "Proof That 2^(1/2) is Irrational"

• "A visual, immediate & intuitive proof that the sum of the first n interger numbers equals n(n+1)/2"

• Landsburg on Dollar-Cost-Averaging, which would be a good You-Tube subject, as would the mortgage interest deduction.

• "THE SECRET NUMBER," IGOR TEPER, Strange Horizons (20 NOVEMBER 2000). The Bleem story.