Helmut Knaust - Miscellaneous: Mostly, But Not Exclusively, Related to Mathematics

• Mathematica
  • Some of my Mathematica notebooks.

• Wavelets etc.
  • What is JPEG? by David Austin (Notices of the AMS 55(2), 2008)
  • Image Compression: Seeing What's Not There by David Austin (Feature Column of the AMS, September 2007)
  • Multi-Resolution Analysis for the Haar Wavelet
  • A Mathematical Theory of Communication by C.E. Shannon (Bell System Technical Journal 27 (1948), pp. 379-423, pp. 623-656)

• Proofs
  • Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem
  • Can a Proof Use Computers?
  • Will Mathematicians Become Superfluous?
  • Is Mathematics Strictly a Human Endeavor?

• R.L. Moore
  • The Legacy of R.L. Moore Project
  • The Greatest Math Teacher Ever, by Keith Devlin
  • The Greatest Math Teacher Ever, Part 2, by Keith Devlin
  • The Moore Method: What Discovery Learning Is and How It Works, by Peter Renz
  • What is the Moore Method?, by William S. Mahavier

• Math and Educational Issues (→ More)
  • The Nation's Report Card - Mathematics 2011. (National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences)
  • It Started Digital Wheels Turning, by John Markoff (NYT, 2011/11/07)
  • After 20 Years in Partnership, an Educational Combo Is Getting a Messy Divorce, by Reeve Hamilton (Texas Tribune 2011/11/04)
  • Since 1990s, U.S. Students’ Math Has Sharpened, but Reading Lags, by Sam Dillon (NYT, 2011/11/01)
  • On Campus, It’s One Big Commercial, by Natasha Singer (NYT, 2011/09/10)
  • Google Details, and Defends, Its Use of Electricity, by James Glanz (NYT, 2011/09/08)
  • How to Fix Our Math Education, by Sol Garfunkel and David Mumford (NYT, 2011/08/24)
• Etc.
  • Dim and Dimmer, by Robert B. Semple Jr. (NYT, 2011/07/10)
  • A Kindergarten guide to modern monetary theory, by Frank Ashe
  • The Bipartisan March to Fiscal Madness, by David A. Stockman (NYT, 2011/04/23)
  • German Engineering at Its Best? (YouTube)
  • How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?, by Paul Krugman (NYT, 2009/09/06)
  • German Viewers Love Their Detectives, by Michael Kimmelman (NYT, 2009/8/27)
  • The Museum of HP Calculators
  • Trans Canada Pipeline Arch
  • Ze Drem vil finali kum tru!
  • How to Make a Car - German Style
  • FAQ about Calendars, by Claus Tøndering
  • The Tube: Original (Harry Beck) | Contemporary | Geo | Anagram
  • Minard's Map
  
  

• German Newspapers and Magazines
  • Die Zeit - A "serious" weekly newspaper, not many pictures, but many in-depth articles.
    
  • Der Stern - A weekly news magazine. High-gloss.
    
  • Der Spiegel - Another weekly news magazine. Always features the newest political gossip.
    
  • FAZ - Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The leading national newspaper, politically and financially rather conservative.
    
  • TAZ - Die Tageszeitung. A small national daily newspaper, clearly situated at the left end of the political spectrum.
    

• My Favorite German TV Shows
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