Matrices in action.... read more >>

Use a cube instead of the Utah Teapot in my previous post. I was pleasantly suprised by the final screen shot.... read more >>

Matrices like the ones shown in the following screen shots are at the heart of computer graphics. They describe objects moving in three-dimensional space. MATLAB's Handle Graphics uses them. So does MathWork's new RoadRunner editor. And so do all popular video games and CAD packages.... read more >>

The Bucky Ball provides an elegant example of a graph, the connectivity of the Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome.We are also demonstrating publishing this blog with the Live Editor. There is a button... read more >>

What do the years 2018, 2029 and 2040 have in common? They are the only years in the 21st century when Easter Sunday occurs on April Fools Day.... read more >>

A news story released yesterday, March 31,by c|net has the headline... read more >>

What do Mount St. Helens and the rank of a matrix have in common? The answer is the MATLAB function peaks. Let me explain. Please bear with me -- it's a long story.... read more >>

Alexa tells me that the definition of serendipity is "the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way."... read more >>

A Mesmerizing AnimationWe are working on a paper about the Kuramoto model of self-synchronizing oscillators. This animation shows the different initial conditions where six oscillators fail to... read more >>

It has been a while since I made a blog post. It is because I am preparing to give a talk next week on"The Evolution of the Evolution of MATLAB"on E-NLA, the Online seminar series on Numerical... read more >>