Saint Patrick

To celebrate Saint Patrick’s day March 17th 2014, here is the history of Saint Patrick: Early Life Saint patrick was born to wealthy Roman British born family some time in the late fourth or perhaps early fifth century. His father was a deacon, and grandfather was a priest. According to The “Confessio” of Saint Patrick at sixteen […]

Newtons Method and Fractals

The Newton Method I kind of think of it as a song, “you put your P(z) in, you take your P'(z) out, you minus all from Zn and you get your Zn+1 out.” Alright, that might be a weak attempt to make an equation into song. Here’s the Newton Method equation (from Wikipedia): Each time […]

Why I am Learning Irish

History Irish also known as Gaeilge, is considered to be a vulnerable language with less than a quarter of a million people still speaking the language (~200,000) daily and (~2,000,000) know the language at the elementary level or above. However, there are some places that holdfast to tradition, such as the Gaeltacht which consist of districts in Ireland, inside […]