As you probably already know, I'm applying to education schools to study secondary mathematics education. (Doesn't that sound fancy now?) As such, I have to prepare a statement describing why I want to study this topic, why I want to study at this school, and why I think I'd be a good choice for them to admit to their program. After much struggle, ( Read more... )

I have a large set of numerical data is a comma-separated values text file that I want to a) plot, b) find maxima and minimum of, c) apply functions to every point of. This is the kind of thing that I used to use Matlab for, but I don't have access to Matlab anymore and it isn't cheap. Excel or OpenOffice Calc can do these tasks, but I don't have ( Read more... )