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Pearls Before Piglets

While Googling my way through the interwebs, I came across the 2008 Western Australian Certificate of Education sample examination for Stage 2 Biological Sciences. It contains this diagram: If you’re wondering, the entire hierarchy is drawn from Umberto Eco‘s novel Baudolino.

Posted 27 May 2009 † Porges § Default ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Tomorrow, the world!

I just read how the Cauchy-Riemann equations can be derived from a (complex 1-manifold/real 2-manifold/Riemann surface), and I think I understood it. Yay!

Posted 10 July 2006 † Porges § self ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

An Island to Oneself

I recently found out that the copyright on this book expired in 2001. Secondly, I found a site that had all the text on it. Since I’ve liked this book since I was a child, I decided to reformat it and share it on my site. You can find it here: An Island to Oneself. [...]

Posted 28 February 2005 † Porges § Default ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: