Abrazol Publishing Newsletter, December 2024
Hello Everyone,
Here's a little anecdote that's funny, cute, and something to think about.
Last Halloween, a little kid comes to the door dressed as superman for Trick or Treat. Richard says "Hey, You're Superman". The little kid says "No, I'm just in a costume".
Anyone who's spent any time in academia will appreciate the following quote.
Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything. You've never been out of college, you don't know what it's like out there. I've worked in the private sector. They expect results. Dan Aykroyd, Ghostbusters
The following quotes will ring true if you've ever spent any time around engineers.
An optimist will tell you the glass is half full; the pessimist, half empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. Oscar Wilde
If you ask an engineer what is 1+1 he'll say "I think it's 2 but just to be safe I'll say it's 3". Anonymous
It's like the beaver told the rabbit as they stared at the Hoover Dam: "I didn't build it myself, but it's based on an idea of mine". Charles Townes
For Christmas 2024, we have a gift idea that will never get boring and will keep you enjoyably busy for a long time.
We are offering a bundle of all of our math, engineering and physics related publications for over 50% off the cost of buying them individually. This is a total of 24 publications. If you bought them all individually it would be over $245. We are offering them all for only $120. That's a 51% discount. The following is a list of the publications included in the bundle.
- Combinatorics Problems and Solutions, Second Edition
- Random Walks in Electrical Networks
- Creating Noise, second edition
- Engineer's Notebook on Inductor and Transformer Circuits: Problems, Solutions and Simulations
- The Enigma of the Crookes Radiometer
- Passive Butterworth Filter Cookbook
- Nell: An SVG Drawing Language
- Coin Tossing: The Hydrogen Atom of Probability
- Creating Melodies
- Hexagonal Tilings and Patterns
- Combinatorics II Problems and Solutions: Counting Patterns
- Information Theory: A Concise Introduction
- Creating Noise
- Creating Rhythms
- Pattern Generation for Computational Art
- Finite Automata and Regular Expressions: Problems and Solutions
- Probability Problems and Solutions
- Combinatorics Problems and Solutions
- The Coin Toss: Probabilities and Patterns
- Bet Smart: The Kelly System for Gambling and Investing
- The QuantWolf Guide to Calculating Bond Default Probabilities
- The Mathematics of Lotteries: How to Calculate the Odds
- Signals from the Subatomic World: How to Build a Proton Precession Magnetometer
- How to Make a Photocatalytic Air Purifier
The link to this offer is https://abrazol.gumroad.com/l/vybgv
Adios amigos, Richard and Stefan Hollos
Send comments to: Richard Hollos (richard[AT]abrazol DOT com).