Cedars Math: Miscellaneous

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Videos

• Abbot and Costello, "Who's on First?"

Videos

• "Dissection of Square to Regular Hexagon" and "Net of an Open Cylinder"

• "How an Infinite Hotel Ran Out Of Room" (6 minutes)

• An Adventure in Color/Mathmagicland (1961) (also contains Mathemagicland) or just "Donald Duck in Mathemagicland, Disney. 27 minutes.

• "Who's on First?" (4 minutes)

• "New Math," Tom Lehrer. About 5 minutes. Also, "Lobachevsky," Tom Lehrer (1953). About 5 minutes.

• "I Am the Very Model of a Biblical Philologist". Add the Major General song.

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. (gated)

• "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.