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I Discovered Quadratic Equations

Byannmaria January 17, 2008January 17, 2008

Yes, this is a little known fact, but I discovered quadratic equations, back in the 1970s when I was in high school. Well, no, I was not the first person to discover them, but it happened like this… My math teacher was a conscientious objector (the Vietnam War was going on) and his alternative service…

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Dr. De Mars General Life Ramblings

Excellence, Math and Other Important Things

Byannmaria January 16, 2008

My daughter, Julia, is named after a French mathematician who discovered the Julia group of fractals. When trying to come up with a name, I had tried everything from the Internet to the Magic Eightball. Still, nothing fit. I was out of town on a business trip – this is how I started most sentences…

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Dr. De Mars General Life Ramblings

It’s never good enough

Byannmaria January 12, 2008

Our first on-line course by the Julia Institute will be offered on January 14. There are so many thousand other details that I would like to add. I would like to do more testing to make sure every little thing works perfectly, that the mp3 files and movie files will work with every computer in…

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Dr. De Mars General Life Ramblings

What is worth the rest of your life?

Byannmaria January 9, 2008January 12, 2008

I admit it. I am having a mid-life crisis. Almost to the half a century mark, it is time to decide what is there that is worth spending the remaining half (or less) of my life doing. Making life better That was the vision for the company I co-founded years ago and just left. I…

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