There was a discussion recently on comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica about maintaining a user-led Mathematica bug list and various solutions were proposed.  I have no desire (and certainly no time) to even try to maintain a ‘proper’ bug database for...

In order to write fully parallel programs in MATLAB you have a few choices but they are either hard work, expensive or both.  For example you could Write parallel mex files using C and OpenMP Drop a load of cash on the parallel computing toolbox from...

3435 = 33 + 44 + 33 + 55 Isn’t this a lovely little identity? Check out this paper by Daan van Berkel in the arXiv for the details.

Earlier today I was chatting to a lecturer over coffee about various mathematical packages that he might use for an upcoming Masters course  (note – offer me food or drink and I’m happy to talk about pretty much anything). He was mainly interested in...

Within every field of human endeavor there is a collection of Holy Grail-like accomplishments; achievements so great that the attainment of any one of them would instantly guarantee a place in the history books. In Physics, for example, there is the...