"A History of MATLAB", a 67-page paper that Jack Little and I have written, has been published by the ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, in the Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, volume 4, June 2020.... 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 >>

(A slight revision of the post I made a few hours ago.)... read more >>

John Horton ConwayFrom the New York Times, April 15, 2020John Horton Conway, a ‘Magical Genius’ in Math, Dies at... read more >>

Lots of tiny bubbles.... read more >>

I have completely rewritten the COVID-19 simulator that I described in last week's blog post and I now have a second version.... read more >>

ContentsSimulatorAnimationFirst frameFinal frameFull barrierNo barrierLarger populationSmaller populationSoftwareSimulator help covid19 Epidemic simulation. Inspired by Washington Post... read more >>

Today is Friday, March 13, 2020. In many parts of the world, Friday the 13th is considered unlucky. I've written blog posts about Friday the 13th before, 2012, 2018, but I will have something new to say today.... read more >>

Tomorrow, February 29, 2020 would be Gene Golub's 22nd birthday.... read more >>