Category Archives: Just fur fun

One of the reasons I posted a funny number was to tell you the story of a funny series I discovered by chance. It had to do with my fascination for simple constructs like $j^j$ giving unexpected results like ${\rm e}^{-\pi/2}$. I always wondered: are there more numbers connected to powers of $j$ or numbers […]

I was giving tutorials for an undergraduate course in Signals and Systems theory. Since students came from quite varying backgrounds I had to start very simple – my first tutorial used to be just on complex numbers. This left some of the students bored, saying they’ve seen it all. To keep them thinking I usually […]