### Archive

Posts Tagged ‘combinatorics’

## Computational Geometry in Python

To illustrate a few advantages of the scipy stack in one of my upcoming talks, I have placed an ipython notebook with (a reduced version of) the current draft of Chapter 6 (Computational Geometry) of my upcoming book: Mastering SciPy.

The raw ipynb can be downloaded from my github repository [blancosilva/Mastering-Scipy/], or viewed directly from the nbviewer at [this other link]

I also made a selection with some fun examples for the talk. You can download the presentation by clicking in the image above.

Enjoy!

## Areas of Mathematics

For one of my upcoming talks I am trying to include an exhaustive mindmap showing the different areas of Mathematics, and somehow, how they relate to each other. Most of the information I am using has been processed from years of exposure in the field, and a bit of help from Wikipedia.

But I am not entirely happy with what I see: my lack of training in the area of Combinatorics results in a rather dry treatment of that part of the mindmap, for example. I am afraid that the same could be told about other parts of the diagram. Any help from the reader to clarify and polish this information will be very much appreciated.

And as a bonus, I included a $\LaTeX$ script to generate the diagram with the aid of the tikz libraries.

\tikzstyle{level 2 concept}+=[sibling angle=40]
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.49, transform shape]
\path[mindmap,concept color=black,text=white]
node[concept] {Pure Mathematics} [clockwise from=45]
child[concept color=DeepSkyBlue4]{
node[concept] {Analysis} [clockwise from=180]
child {
node[concept] {Multivariate \& Vector Calculus}
[clockwise from=120]
child {node[concept] {ODEs}}}
child { node[concept] {Functional Analysis}}
child { node[concept] {Measure Theory}}
child { node[concept] {Calculus of Variations}}
child { node[concept] {Harmonic Analysis}}
child { node[concept] {Complex Analysis}}
child { node[concept] {Stochastic Analysis}}
child { node[concept] {Geometric Analysis}
[clockwise from=-40]
child {node[concept] {PDEs}}}}
child[concept color=black!50!green, grow=-40]{
node[concept] {Combinatorics} [clockwise from=10]
child {node[concept] {Enumerative}}
child {node[concept] {Extremal}}
child {node[concept] {Graph Theory}}}
child[concept color=black!25!red, grow=-90]{
node[concept] {Geometry} [clockwise from=-30]
child {node[concept] {Convex Geometry}}
child {node[concept] {Differential Geometry}}
child {node[concept] {Manifolds}}
child {node[concept,color=black!50!green!50!red,text=white] {Discrete Geometry}}
child {
node[concept] {Topology} [clockwise from=-150]
child {node [concept,color=black!25!red!50!brown,text=white]
{Algebraic Topology}}}}
child[concept color=brown,grow=140]{
node[concept] {Algebra} [counterclockwise from=70]
child {node[concept] {Elementary}}
child {node[concept] {Number Theory}}
child {node[concept] {Abstract} [clockwise from=180]
child {node[concept,color=red!25!brown,text=white] {Algebraic Geometry}}}
child {node[concept] {Linear}}}
node[extra concept,concept color=black] at (200:5) {Applied Mathematics}
child[grow=145,concept color=black!50!yellow] {
node[concept] {Probability} [clockwise from=180]
child {node[concept] {Stochastic Processes}}}
child[grow=175,concept color=black!50!yellow] {node[concept] {Statistics}}
child[grow=205,concept color=black!50!yellow] {node[concept] {Numerical Analysis}}
child[grow=235,concept color=black!50!yellow] {node[concept] {Symbolic Computation}};
\end{tikzpicture}


## Unusual dice

Roll simultaneously a hundred 100-sided dice, and add the resulting values. The set of possible outcomes is, of course, $\{100, 101, \dotsc, 10000\}.$ Note that there is only one way to obtain the outcome 100—all dice showing a 1. There is also only one way to obtain the outcome 10000—all dice showing 100. For the outcome 101, there are exactly 100 different ways to obtain it: all dice except one show a 1, and one die shows a 2. The follow-up question is: