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1. The Art of Nomography (2008)
   6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2008-09-10
2. The lost art of Nomography
   5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2011-09-13
3. The Art of Nomography I: Geometric Design
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-09-04
4. Dead Reckonings - Lost Art in the Mathematical Sciences
   2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-04-26

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1. ky3 · 2014-12-26

   mathematical proofs are difficult enough to follow without having to guess the action of the operators involved. What Heaviside did was the sort of fast-and-loose syntactic manipulation that makes mathematicians queasy and/or indignant [1]. He treats the derivative operator just like it were an ordinary number X. And then he infers that 1/X must mean integration. Compare to the naive argument for the positive intege…

   Comment linking /wordpress/2007/12/07/heavisides-operator-calculus/

   on “Oliver Heaviside”
2. xtacy · 2011-09-13

   Submitted The lost art of Nomography as a story · 61 points

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3. shithead · 2011-09-14

   First thing in the series of blog articles: http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/2008/01/09/the-art-of-nomo...

   Comment linking /wordpress/2008/01/09/the-art-of-nomography-i-geometric-design/

   on “The lost art of Nomography”
4. elemeno · 2017-10-18

   Submitted The Art of Nomography (2008) as a story · 35 points

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5. mixedmath · 2021-07-13Recommends

   This is a nice article. I know of a couple other resources. First and foremost is the site modernnomographs [1]. Popular mechanics once included a perpetual calendar nomograph [2]. Possibly pynomo [3], a python tool to make nomographs, would also be interesting to others. [1]: http://www.myreckonings.com/modernnomograms/ [2]: https://books.google.com/books?id=mN4DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA699&pg=... [3]: http://pynomo.org/wiki…

   Comment linking /modernnomograms/

   on “The Art of Nomography (2020)”
6. Rod · 2009-04-19

   Submitted Heaviside’s Operator Calculus as a story · 20 points

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7. jacobolus · 2014-09-01Recommends

   This is nice: http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Journal...

   Comment linking /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/JournalArticle/The_Lost_Art_of_Nomography.pdf

   on “Nomogram”
8. Nickersf · 2015-08-11

   Submitted The Art of Nomography I: Geometric Design (2008) as a story · 14 points

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9. ableal · 2009-04-26Recommends

   For those intrigued by this kind of thing, this book (paper only, but the web page has more resources) may be interesting: Dead Reckoning: Calculating Without Instruments, by Ronald W. Doerfler ( http://www.myreckonings.com/Dead_Reckoning/Dead_Reckoning.ht... ) More good stuff at http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/ . The nomography posts had caught my eye a while ago, and there may be more of those coming soon. (Disc…

   Comment linking /wordpress/

   on “Math Trick: Calculating the Square Root by Hand”
10. auferstehung · 2009-09-04

    Submitted The Art of Nomography I: Geometric Design as a story · 9 points

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11. goialoq · 2017-10-18

    better, with graphics: http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Journal...

    Comment linking /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/JournalArticle/The_Lost_Art_of_Nomography.pdf

    on “The Art of Nomography (2008)”
12. wglb · 2010-01-04

    Submitted Dead Reckonings - Lost Art in the Mathematical Sciences as a story · 4 points

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13. pasbesoin · 2010-01-04

    Note the calendars provided on what is currently the top post: A 2010 "Graphical Computing" Calendar http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/2009/12/31/a-2010-graphica...

    Comment linking /wordpress/2009/12/31/a-2010-graphical-computing-calendar/

    on “Dead Reckonings - Lost Art in the Mathematical Sciences”
14. josefslerka · 2021-08-26

    Submitted The Lost Art of Nomography (2009) [pdf] as a story · 3 points

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15. dang · 2023-01-01

    The submitted URL ( http://myreckonings.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/Journal... ) is not currently returning a pdf. There's an archived version at https://web.archive.org/web/20111226124705/http://myreckonin... . In the meantime I think we can change the URL to https://deadreckonings.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/nomograph... , which has an earlier version of the same piece.

    Comment linking /wordpress/wp-content/uploads/JournalArticle/The_Lost_Art_of_Nomography.pdf

    on “The Lost Art of Nomography (2009) [pdf]”
16. llambda · 2011-12-18

    Submitted The Art of Nomography as a story · 2 points

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17. johndcook · 2011-08-08

    Submitted The Art of Nomography: Geometric Design as a story · 2 points

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18. bekaus · 2011-01-11

    Submitted A 2011 “Lightning Calculation” Calendar as a story · 2 points

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19. soundsop · 2008-09-10

    Submitted The Art of Nomography as a story · 2 points

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20. Zuider · 2015-03-23

    Submitted The Art of Nomography I: Geometric Design as a story · 1 points

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21. jashmenn · 2011-05-28

    Submitted Nomograms use geometry to represent and solve equations as a story · 1 points

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22. da5e · 2010-12-10

    Submitted Dead Reckonings » A 2011 “Lightning Calculation” Calendar as a story · 1 points

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23. pieceofpeace · 2010-01-05

    Submitted A 2010 "Graphical Computing" Calendar as a story · 1 points

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24. wwalker3 · 2009-08-05

    Submitted The (Not So) Simple Pendulum as a story · 1 points

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