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My company for this long week end
07 April 09 05:11 AM | norman | 6 comment(s)

My order to SIAM last week just delivered to my desk this morning. Yay! I got it now that it can really amuse me during the upcoming long week end. I thought it would never reach me within this working days. The cool thing about this book is that it is...

Filed under: Mathematics, Thesis, Numerical Analysis, PDE

I miss Visual Studio, yes, the IDE
21 April 08 09:38 AM | norman | 13 comment(s)

There's an old saying: "You don't know what you have until it's gone.". No, I don't talk about this , but I am talking about Visual Studio. For more than half a year now I've been doing more coding in MATLAB and in Mathematica...

Filed under: Mathematics, Visual Studio, Scientific Computing, Mathematica, IDE, MATLAB

What is Scientific Computing? What is Computational Science?
16 April 08 02:54 PM | norman | 5 comment(s)

In addition to .NET and programming in general, I will also write about the area of my upcoming thesis: Scientific Computing. I will start easy. As always. First, by defining what is Scientific Computing. Traditionally, it is called Numerical Analysis...

Filed under: Mathematics, Algorithm, Scientific Computing, Computational Science, Numerical Analysis

Oversimplified Mathematical View to Understand the beauty of OOP
05 December 07 01:50 AM | norman | 4 comment(s)

This is my oversimplifed Mathematical view of OOP so that we can understand the beauty of OOP. Where its power really is. Let's define: X is a set of real world concepts that matters. Z is a set of Software objects (usually defined via class). OOP...

Filed under: OOP, Mathematics, Algorithm, OOAD, Relation

Joining ACM & SIAM
03 December 07 09:28 AM | norman | 5 comment(s)

Tekat saya untuk mengambil thesis di area DMTCS (Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science) semakin menguat. Apalagi, calon pembimbing yang sudah saya ajak discuss memberi "lampu hijau". Beliau adalah Doktor di bidang Applied Math...

Filed under: Mathematics, ACM, SIAM, Theoretical Computer Science

NUMB3RS, We All Use Math Every Day
30 November 07 03:50 AM | norman | 4 comment(s)

I've posted an article about my current favourite TV show , NUMB3RS , in the citizen journalism website, wikimu.com . If you want to see how FBI uses cryptanalysis, probability theory, game theory, partial differential equations, decision theory,...

Filed under: Mathematics, NUMB3RS, Wolfram Research

A Mathematician's Apology
18 April 07 05:50 AM | norman | 1 comment(s)

Just finished reading GH Hardy 's essay " A Mathematician's Apology ". Interesting reading! "Apology" here is not about requesting "forgiveness", it's more a "defense". A defense of a Mathematician about...

Filed under: Mathematics