Well I blame Antonio Cangiano for this.. last thing I needed is another distraction, but he just hit my Achilles and gave me a new feed for my RSS reader. I like Math but haven’t done that much since college. I also like what I do which is largely write code. This uses both and is a tempting distraction. Drats!
Euler (pronounced Oy-ler) was an 18th century mathematician and physicist famous for his work with calculus and graph theory. His work was the basis of my first college calculus class. We studied his work on decision making and routes (graph theory) and led into Riemann sums then integral calculus. Euler did a lot with applied math, which ended up being my focus in earning a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.
Project Euler is a web site with math and programming challenges. If you like either, you’ll probably like the site. I may have to intentionally avoid it due to my obsessive drive to solve problems. (I’m sure I’ll do at least a few of them at some point)