About Me
Swansea University lecturer. Web enthusiast; dabbler in software engineering and control systems; PLENK2010 ds106 and cck11 participant; EG-353 coordinator. Squirrel and meerkat.
Monthly Archives: February 2009
More on Euler
I am grateful to my friend and former Swansea colleague Dr Farzin Deravi of University of Kent at Canterbury who read my blog post on Euler’s identity (“The Most Beautiful Equation in the World”) via Facebook and told me about … Continue reading
How many blogs is too many?
I regularly post to three blogs. This one, which used to be work related, is now sort of miscellaneous. I try to keep my other blog @the.coalface, which is a multi-user WordPress blog hosted at my University, focussed on my … Continue reading
The Most Beautiful Equation in the World
According to some, Euler’s identity is one of the most beautiful mathematical expressions in the world. The identity is1 + ei? = 0 (although electrical engineers like myself are more familiar with seeing it written as 1 + ej? = … Continue reading
Tagged art, mathematics, photos
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How to write up a dissertation: Referencing
In about four weeks I will be giving a lecture to the Level 3 Engineering Dissertation class on proper referencing. I will probably want to cover the following ground: Plagiarism (or how not to reference)How to referenceA couple of referencing … Continue reading
Tagged projects, work
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The Catch 22 of Academic Publishing
A couple of interesting articles crossed my on-line reading list today. First of all, Chris Hall from the Swansea Learning lab posted a delicious.com bookmark to a Times Higher Education article which reported on a JISC Report on new models … Continue reading
Tagged academic publishing, opinion
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Snow!
The snow finally arrived in Swansea but brought with it the usual British “severe weather” madness. I received a Twitter tweet from a colleague that said that the University was closed and because I couldn’t believe it: I walked out … Continue reading
Snow?
According to the BBC, snow falls today caused major disruption to normal sevice of UK PLC. In Swansea, we had a light dusting as this shot of my route into work shows. Light snow showers expected tonight.
Tagged snow, weather
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