I'm slowly (but surely!) making my way through Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter. As I've mention...

Suppose I had a polynomial a n x n + a n-1 x n-1 + … + a 1 x + a 0 , and a point x * at which I wanted to evaluate t...

A different sort of blog post today: I figured we'd take a quick break from SICP and have a look at a puzzle from another book I'v...

We saw in the last post how we can tackle the N-Queens Puzzle recursively by considering each column in turn. This way, we can generate al...

One of the cooler exercises from the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is Exercise 2.42 : finding solutions to the N-Queen...

The notion of a higher-order function – that is, a function that operates on other functions – is a fundamental idea i...

As a follow-up from the previous post dealing with fixed-point iteration , another particularly useful family of numerical techniques de...