Book Review: Applied Analysis

Apr 222014
 

Lanczos
Once in a while you stumble in a good book, and for me recently that was Applied Analysis by Cornelius Lanczos, published by Dover Books. This is a little gem of numerical analysis, and although it is a bit outdated, it is a book full of interesting tidbits of knowledge.

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A Canonical Color Palette

Apr 212014
 

I recently decided that I ought to have a canonical set of colors to use in my publications and so I came up with the following seven colors:

Color palette

Here are gnuplot definitions of lines using these colors. Feel free to use this set, and if you have suggestion on how to improve it, let me know!

# Canonical colors - full line
set style line 1 lc rgb '#000000' lt 1 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # black
set style line 2 lc rgb '#16469D' lt 1 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # dark blue
set style line 3 lc rgb '#BD202D' lt 1 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # red
set style line 4 lc rgb '#00A14B' lt 1 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # green
set style line 5 lc rgb '#4B96D1' lt 1 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # light blue
set style line 6 lc rgb '#F16521' lt 1 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # orange
set style line 7 lc rgb '#9F6EAF' lt 1 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # light purple
# Canonical colors - dashed line
set style line 11 lc rgb '#000000' lt 2 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # black
set style line 12 lc rgb '#16469D' lt 2 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # dark blue
set style line 13 lc rgb '#BD202D' lt 2 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # red
set style line 14 lc rgb '#00A14B' lt 2 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # green
set style line 15 lc rgb '#4B96D1' lt 2 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # light blue
set style line 16 lc rgb '#F16521' lt 2 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # orange
set style line 17 lc rgb '#9F6EAF' lt 2 lw 3.0 ps 0.5 pt 7 # light purple

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Mastering hyphen, minus, en, and em

Jun 222011
 
  • – hyphen, used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word
    Correct: “second-order PT”, “Lennard-Jones potential”
    Wrong: “-1”
  • − minus, used to indicated negative numbers and the subtraction sign
    Correct: “1−2 = −1”
    Wrong: “second−order PT”
  • – en dash, used in ranges, used to contrast values, or illustrate a relationship between two things
    Correct: “pp. 38–55”, “Fermi–Dirac statistics”, “Hartree–Fock”
    Wrong: “–1”, “Lennard–Jones potential”
  • — em dash, demarcates a parenthetical thought
    Correct: “However, one might anticipate that in certain cases—in particular, when determining potential energy surfaces—the elimination of redundancies could pose a serious problem.”
    Wrong: “—1”

In latex you can get this in the following way using the standard keyboard dash (-)
Hyphen: Lennard-Jones,
Minus sign: $0$, $1$ and $-1$
En dash: Hartree–-Fock
Em dash: in certain cases---in particular?

For more info check out the wikipedia article on dash.

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