http://www.metafilter.com/tags/discrete Posts tagged with 'discrete' at MetaFilter. Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:02:22 -0800 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:02:22 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69625/Big%2Dbook%2Dof%2Dalgorithms If you could use a great big free handbook of discrete math and algorithms, J&#0246;rg Arndt's <a href="http://www.jjj.de/fxt/#fxtbook">fxtbook</a> wants to be your friend. Plain text <a href="http://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtbook-toc.txt">table of contents</a> to whet your appetite. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69625 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:02:22 -0800 algorithms combinatorics computerscience discrete fxtbook jorgarndt math programming Wolfdog http://www.metafilter.com/27402/Student%2DChallenges%2DBasic%2DIdeas%2Dof%2DTime <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-07/icc-gwi072703.php">A bold paper</a> published in the August issue of Foundations of Physics Letters seems set to change the way we think about the nature of time and its relationship to motion and classical and quantum mechanics. The work also appears to provide solutions to <a href="http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s3-07/3-07.htm">Zeno's paradoxes</a>. (Via <a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net">Kurzweilai.net</a>. More inside...) tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.27402 Fri, 01 Aug 2003 07:20:15 -0800 discrete existence nature paradox physics quantum time zeno Pinwheel