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

• Mathematica
  • My Wolfram Demonstration Projects
  • Other 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

• Mostly Math and Educational Issues (→ More)
  • Microbe TV Interview with Anthony Fauci (2020/07/17)
  • How Moderates Failed Black America, by David Brooks (NYT 2020/06/18)
  • America’s Great Working-Class Colleges , by David Leonhard (NYT 2017/01/18)
  • America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries' High School Dropouts, by Gabrielle Emanuel (NPR 2016/3/14)
  • John F. Nash Jr., Mathematician Whose Life Story Inspired ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ Dies at 86, by Erica Goode (NYT, 2015/05/24)
  • College for the Masses, by David Leonhardt (NYT, 2015/04/16)
  • Darling-Hammond, Linda (2014) "What Can PISA Tell Us about U.S. Education Policy?," New England Journal of Public Policy: Vol. 26: Iss. 1, Article 4.
  • Far From the Madding Crowd, by Jeff Salamon (Texas Monthly, December 2014)
  • Alexandre Grothendieck, le plus grand mathématicien du XXe siècle, est mort, by Stéphane Foucart and Philippe Pajot (Le Monde, 2014/11/14)
  • Alexander Grothendieck, Math Enigma, Dies at 86, by Bruce Weber and Julie Rehmeyer (NYT, 2014/11/14)
  • The American Dream Is Leaving America, by Nicholas Kristof (NYT, 2014/10/25)
  • The State of Education for African American Students, The Education Trust, June 2014.
  • The State of Education for Latino Students, The Education Trust, June 2014.
  • Why Do Americans Stink at Math?, by Elizabeth Green (NYT, 2014/07/23)
  • The Employer’s Creed, by David Brooks (NYT, 2014/03/31)
  • UC's Napolitano throws cold water on the online education craze, by Michael Hiltzik (LA Times, 2014/03/26)
  • Why is everyone ignoring my brilliant solution to the debt ceiling crisis? by Oliver Burkeman (The Guardian, 2013/10/04)
  • Graveling Over Visible — and Invisible — Funding Holes, by Ross Ramsey (Texas Tribune, 2013/09/13)
  • Bhutan Is No Shangri-La, by Vidhyapati Mishra (NYT, 2013/06/28)
  • QS Rating of Top Universities in Mathematics, (May 2013)
  • Undermining Pell: How Colleges Compete for Wealthy Students and Leave the Low-Income Behind, by Stephen Burd (New America Foundation, May 2013)

• Etc.
  • The Paranoid Style in American Politics, by Richard Hofstadter, Harper's Magazine (November 1964).
  • On Bullshit, by Harry Frankfurt, Raritan Quarterly Review 6, no. 2 (Fall 1986).
  • Death Sentences and Executions 2012, Amnesty International.
  • Global Warming's Terrifying New Math, by Bill McKibben (Rolling Stones, 2012/08/19)
  • 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!, by Unknown
  • 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