Monday, June 14, 2010

Math series 7 -- complex numbers!

And now we come to one of our first major conclusions: you already understand complex numbers! (Again, if you find these helpful please leave me a note, I'd like to hear some feedback.)








Sunday, June 13, 2010

Math series 6 -- radians

Finishing up with rotations before we move on to something (seemingly) completely unrelated.





Friday, June 11, 2010

Math Series 4 -- rotation = multiply

And now we get to the end first of section. If you've followed along through these slides then congratulations! -- you've just learned about 12 years of math in 20 slides (Not really! -- but it does take traditional math classes 12 years to get to this point!)






Sunday, June 6, 2010

Math Series 3 -- More rotations

Today, more details about rotations. I promise, it gets to a good punch line before too much longer!!




Friday, June 4, 2010

Math series 2 -- Rotations

Today we tackle rotations which are simple once you get the "trick". If you are enjoying these, please leave a note to encourage me to post more. :-)






Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Math series 1 - Vectors

A long time ago I started writing a book to explain complex numbers and the Fourier transform. I never got around to finishing it and my friend Matt just asked for it so I think I'll try to finish it one bite-sized chunk at a time and post it here to the blog. This is panel 1-5 of about 80. It starts off at vectors and ends at the Fourier trasform via Euler's equation. If you like it, please leave feedback to encourage me to actually finish it! :-)