I've been watching a brilliant BBC4 programme for the past couple of nights, about the history of mathematics. Tonight dealt with the Indians' contributions, before moving over to Italy and yammering on about Fibonacci for a bit. It's pitched at an interesting level; the presenter (a mathematician) avoids using too many formulae, x's and y's, and ( Read more... )

Bad news: I've found a mistake in chapter 3 of my thesis.

Good news: It was made by my boss.

Haha!

He's used xh(1-p) as the inclusive rate of transposition into non-transposing cells, whereas the value is actually xhp(1-p).

The big idiot.