Programming Prolegomenon 1: Mathematical Syntax

Programming tutorial for complete and utter beginners. Lesson 1 covers entering mathematical expressions. Features: opening a terminal, starting up bc, entering basic arithmetic, Fermat near-miss, pi approximations, real vs integer math, modulo operator, Fermat's Little Theorem, prime testing. Related links: bc for Windows (get the complete package): http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bc.htm Fermat's Last Theorem: http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.fermat.html Fermat near-misses: http://www.math.harvard.edu/~elkies/ferm.html pi approximations: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiApproximations.html Fermat's Little Theorem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_of_Fermat%27s_little_theorem Sophie Germain: http://www.agnesscott.edu/Lriddle/WOMEN/germain.htm Srinivasa Ramanujan: http://www.nadn.navy.mil/Users/math/meh/ramanujan.html This video was made using the programs recordmydesktop, Lives, Audacity, Gimp, Latex, and of course bc.