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Having lived in Argentina, I can confirm that this is indeed the case! There is also a version called terere in which cold fruit juice is substituted for hot water.

I'm not convinced that such an intrinsic truth exists apart from application.

Fair point!

I'm not convinced this does logically follow. There is a view point that God is the source of math only in the sense that God created humanity with the limited capacity for underst…

I work in applied mathematics and specifically in CFD. This may make me not a "true mathematician" to some of the mathematical community. In fluid dynamics nearly everything is an …

As a mathematician and a believer in God, I get uncomfortable when people start attributing math to God. I see math as being very much a construct of the human psyche and as astoun…

I had a friend in high school who's father survived a skydiving accident "breaking every bone in his body." What made the biggest impression on me was that not only did he have to …

I was wondering!

I'd agree, Raleigh area would be a great choice. It is growing with lower cost of living than other tech centers.

Research Triangle Park- between Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Triangle_Park

It is my opinion that 1) We continue to need new textbooks: Despite relative little change in core materials for subjects like Calculus, there is a need for adaptation of texts to …

There is an interesting discussion on the origin of the word Easter in the comments.

I love audiobooks, and have discovered the wonderful wispersync feature to seamlessly pick up my kindle or audible audiobook, which ever is most convenient. I highly recommend the …

This book helped me to visualize Krylov space methods better than any other resource I have seen. It got me through my numerical analysis qualifying exam. I do agree that the last …

My wife is from a small town in Mexico where there has been a recent surge in violence and kidnappings. Her family is there and we go visit once a year or so as we can. Last time I…

Oh the dreaded "details left as an exercise." Personally, if I can't fill in details readily myself, I use Google or "just take there word for it" and hope it doesn't bite me later…

In the area of numerical analysis, I'd recommend works by LeVeque and Trefethen.

This post mostly describes me. I am a PhD student in applied mathematics and returned school to get my PhD precisely because I wanted to get a job outside of academics, most likely…

This is fantastic! Besides listing text/topic recommendations, it has lots of pdf documents.

Last week I went to a couple of lectures by the author and also went to view the St. John's altarpiece at the NC Museum of Art. It is beautiful and fascinating. The exhibit is very…