Mathematics, philosophy, programming, in-line skating and everything in between. More about me…
In finance and economics we recognize several types of money. Monetary aggregates are used to measure the supply of various types of money in an economy. The most commonly used aggregates are M0 through M3, plus monetary base. See the following diagram to understand how the aggregates relate to each other.
Sometimes the world comes crashing down. We’ve all known the triggers of major crises. Physical illness, relationship difficulties, stress, or depression. These things occasionally pay a visit. Sometimes all of them at once. But they have a reason for coming. They’re not setbacks. They’re not here to hurt. They are great opportunities to pause your life and think for a while how you got here and where are you going. A crisis is a lesson.
My 2012 New Year Wish has some beautiful mathematics: beautifully simple, beautifully abstract, and beautifully mysterious. Want to peek under her skirts?
Never lift you hand from the finished work, for you could actually finish it.
For something that does not even exist, the future seems to be a rather obsessive theme for humans. How to face it?
For a while I turned up the volume, closed my eyes, and let the music flood my mind. As always, the sound brought with it a stream, a river, a voracious torrent of memories. Memories half-forgotten and vividly remembered, memories of happiness and of pain, memories of love and loss. Memories, rivers of life. Yet rivers never twice entered.
Hacking together concepts from mathematical analysis, mathematical logic, and computer science and finding similarities while half asleep can be fun! :-)
In my personal philosophy, I’m leaning towards determinism: the view that our actions, decisions, and destinies are somehow decided – determined – in advance. However, I am able to differentiate at least between two types of determinism. Both have their issues, both need to be thought through more, and neither of them wins the argument for me. What about you?
Our long journey through the infinite lands is coming to an end. What end is there to infinity, you ask? I’d have to put on a theologian’s hat to answer that. But as a mathematician, I can answer a question much more daring: what end is there to infinities?
