drewbutcher

My First Full Length Calculus Lecture is Now Available!

Drew Butcher — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:47:38 +0000

Check it out. I have just finished publishing my first full length lecture to youtube. It is on one of the more difficult subjects and one that which Newton referred to as the foundations of calculus, the idea of a limit. I coupled this idea with continuity; giving both an intuitive definition of what it means to be continuous, and a very rigorous definition of continuity. So without further ado here is the link. Because the lecture is about 50 minutes I had to break up it into 4 parts. If you want to see the lecture as click through slides click here. I really hope that you enjoy this and look forward to hearing lots of feedback.

Best,

DrB

What is LaTeX and What is Beamer?

Drew Butcher — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:36:03 +0000

A special thanks to Till Tantau!

Ok, I forget sometimes that most people (especially non mathematicians which counts for like everyone) have never heard of LaTeX or Beamer. My brother thought that the word Beamer referred to a BMW car. While this is true it is not exactly what I was going for. So let us break it down. LaTeX is a coding language that gives out text instead of a program. It is the fancy way that mathematicians can write papers. At times it may seem a bit old school; however, the end result typically looks very professional. Thanks to Dr Till Tantau, a way cool German Mathematician, mathematicians have a LaTeX version of power point called beamer. The up side to this is there is so much more that one can do in beamer then ever possible in power point! I have to say my students love the beamer lectures i make for them because they can actually see the mathematics unfolding infront of them. The files are just pdf files and run on any computer; however, the look is very advanced. Dr. Tantau also created a nice package in LaTeX called Tikzpicture that allows one to create some amazing graphics. The added bonus of all this is that everything is FREE, and who doesn’t like free stuff?

My Goal!!!!

Ok so my game plan, simple as it may be, is to create some really cool Beamer LaTeX movies using Tikzpictures. Here is an example and there are more coming every day. Thanks for reading and I hope this will help you in your studies of mathematics. Please Vote below on the effectiveness of beamer.

Sincerely,

DrB

I’m Back!!!

Drew Butcher — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:12:15 +0000

Ok i have to admit i have been away for a bit. But know I have been working hard at designing some cool new math stuff for you guys. I am very excited to share with you BEAMER!!!! Check out this video Completing the Square. This is an example of what I have been working on. I have lots more to share and would like to turn this into a full time job. So let me know what you think in the poll and please donate to the cause.

Many thanks,

Dr.B

Hello World!

Drew Butcher — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:04:42 +0000

I am glad you have stopped at my newly founded BLOG!!!!…. Feel free to add a comment or ask a math question under the “Blog” tab. The main purpose of this blog is to organize my YouTube videos. If you click on the Tab “Subjects“ a list of topics will appear and you can select the subject you wish to study. Let me know what you think and Please Subscribe at YouTube as I am still in the process of making partner!

best,
DrB