Icarus Wing
“the great anti-American novel”
Modern Integration
a university mathematics textbook
(under construction)
Free Software
Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia
…other software I’ve worked on…
Sage 9: Function Fields
A twenty minute overview of some of the new features in Sage 9.
Christmas Message
I quote from Pope Francis’ Christmas Message to the Roman Curia and emphasize sacrificial charity as the basis for a new evangelism.
The Facebook Integral
Facebook has developed a neural network that can solve some integrals that Mathematica can not. In the first video, I explain how to use free software products (Axiom and Sage) to solve this integral. In the second video, I go into more detail about Robert Risch’s theorem and how it applies to the Facebook integral.
Impeachment!
The battery went dead on the recorder, so only the first few minutes of the speech were saved.
Homelessness: A Constitutional Right?
Brent discusses a Ninth Circuit ruling on homelessness:
Also, the Hallmark channel same-sex wedding controversy:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/15/business/hallmark-same-sex-advertisement-backlash
Sage 9: Multivariate Factorization over Q̅
Do We Hate Freedom?
Brent’s responds to Carol Ruth’s defense of capitalism:
https://foxnews.com/entertainment/carol-roth-mark-ruffalo-attacking-capitalism
Exact Computation of Algebraic Varieties using Numerical Techniques
(graduate seminar lecture at Catholic University)
Power, Privacy, and the U.S. Constitution
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Hall of the States (FOX News)
Washington, DC
President Donald Trump has recently nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, setting off another predictably partisan battle over a Supreme Court nominee.
One thing we won’t get is a justice that rules according to the text of the Constitution, since the Federal Government exercises powers so wildly beyond the scope of the constitution, that any attempt to enforce the document as written would set off a constitutional crisis.
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