Friday, December 9, 2011

The Professor, The Pretender and The Physicist.1

P-series

A generalization of the harmonic series is the p-series, defined as:

\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n^p},\!

for any positive real number p. When p = 1, the p-series is the harmonic series, which diverges. Either the integral test or the Cauchy condensation test shows that the p-series converges for all p > 1 (in which case it is called the over-harmonic series) and diverges for all p ≤ 1. If p > 1 then the sum of the p-series is ΞΆ(p), i.e., the Riemann zeta function evaluated at p.
link->Harmonic Series

p-Series Convergence

The p-series is given by
sum (1..inf) 1/np = 1/1p + 1/2p + 1/3p + ...
where p > 0 by definition.
If p > 1, then the series converges.
If 0 < p <= 1 then the series diverges.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Friday, September 23, 2011

Saturday, April 23, 2011

the mask of sanity

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_of_Sanity

thom gumb and friends

Harris based Gumb on six real-life serial killers:[2][3]

* Jerry Brudos, who would dress up in his victims' clothing and keep their shoes.
* Ed Gein, who fashioned trophies and keepsakes from their bones and skin. He also made a female skin suit and skin masks.
* Ted Bundy, who pretended to be injured (specifically, wearing an arm-brace) in a ploy to ask his victims for help or assistance. He subsequently incapacitated and killed them.
* Gary M. Heidnik, who kidnapped six women and held them prisoner as sex slaves.
* Edmund Kemper, who, like Gumb, killed his grandparents as a teenager "just to see what it felt like."
* The Green River Killer, who like Gumb dumped women's bodies in rivers and inserted foreign objects into their corpses.