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Doug's Home Page

Douglas J. Ingalls
(1934-1999)

In grateful appreciation for the opportunity to have met this gentleman for ever so brief a moment in time.
This site created by him, is maintained by the caretaker in his memory and honor.

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Godfrey Harold Hardy

1877 - 1947

The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

Reference: G H Hardy, 10, A Mathematician's Apology (Cambridge, 1967).

Some of my interests are:

• Art

  • Mathematics may become art as witnessed by Kelly images.

• Computer Science

  • HTML Coding - The music section is an example of an HTML table as are the tables in The Decision Table section. An application of frames will be found in Newton's Method

  • Computation - Newton's Method will be found in the Mathematics section

• Genealogy

  • The Ingalls/Buyea/Kilts/Moot genealogical file in the form of ingalls.ged can be found. The file is quite long with approximately 5000 individuals in 1700 families. The file was last updated in 1999. It is suggested that you save it to disk and use a text editor to open it. If you open it on-line Family Tree Maker will try to open it if you have it installed.

  • The History of the Ingalls Family begins with Buyea family which lived on the south-west corner of Lot 27 of The 1802 land purchase. Later the Ingalls family lived on the north- west corner of Buyea and Eddy Road. As the children grew up they purchased farms along Creek Road where they prospered for 100 years.

  • An important source of information can be Family Bible. The Kilts Bible is a record of the Joseph (James,Sr, Joseph) Ingalls and Mary (Nicholas, Conrad) Kilts family. In addition to members of their union the Bible may have been used to record additional information. It is of interest to note that entries use the Ingols spelling and the early entries are exactly the same as 1850 US Census, Town of Lenox, Madison County, NY, visit 323. This would be a location on Creek Road.

  • Cazenovia Village and Town of Cazenovia, Madison County, New York

    • Catholic Cemetery
    • Cazenovia Village Cemetery
    • Farm Cemeteries
    • New Woodstock Cemetery
    • South Cemetery
    • Union Cemetery

  • Town of Fenner, Madison County, New York

    • Chittenango Falls Cemetery
    • Farm Cemeteries
    • Lyon or Mutton Hill Cemetery
    • Needham Cemetery
    • Perryville Cemetery
    • Roberts Corners Cemetery
    • Wilson Cemetery

  • Town of Georgetown, Madison County, New York

    • Allard Family Cemetery
    • Georgetown Baptist Church Yard
    • Hillside Cemetery
    • Texas Cemetery
    • Zadock Hawks Cemetery

  • Town of Lenox, Madison County, New York

    • Lenox Rural Cemetery
    • Walnut Grove Cemetery

  • Town of Lebanon, Madison County, New York

    • Campbell Burying Ground
    • Gates Burying Ground
    • Lebanon Baptist Church Death Records
    • Niles Settlement Cemetery
    • Ostrom Cemetery
    • Randallsville Cemetery

  • Town of Lincoln, Madison County, New York

    • Buyea Cemetery
    • Chaffee Cemetery
    • Clockville Cemetery
    • Cranson Cemetery
    • Farm Cemeteries
    • Merrillsville Cemetery
    • Vedder Cemetery

  • Town of Nelson, Madison County, New York

    • Erieville Cemetery
    • Farm Cemeteries of Nelson
    • Nelson Rural Cemetery
    • Welsh Church Cemetery

  • Town of Smithfield, Madison County, New York

    • Davis Farm or Gill Cemetery
    • Eisaman Corners Cemetery
    • Old Peterboro Cemetery
    • Peterboro Village Cemetery
    • Siloam Cemetery

  • Listing of four cemetery indexes for Madison County.
    

    • Index 1 The DAR list
    • Index 2
    • Introduction to Index 3
    • Index 3 Town of Brookfield
    • Index 4 Tuttle list

• Mathematics - Topics in Chaos and Self-Similarity

  • Investigations of the generalized logistic equation, y = a*x + b*x*(1-x)

  • The Gibbs Phenomena and Self-Similarity

  • Newton's Method and Chaos. Also see the following reference.

  • Application of Newton's method to the study of (x+3)(x+2)...(x-2)(x-3) = 0. This requires a browser that will support frames. A non-frame version is also available for Version 2.0 of browsers.

• Music

  • The Two and Three part Inventions of Johann Sebastian Bach in MIDI format. This is an example of the use of a table. A browser that supports playing of MIDI files is required.

• Physics

  • Apparent depth in optics. The question of where an object is located in a medium by an observer is interesting. Subtle errors occur in physics references. If one places a square block of plastic or glass along a straight line and views two objects, side by side, one through the material and one through the air at the same time one sees that the object viewed through the material appears to be closer than the object viewed through the air.

• Psychology

  • Choices and decisions can be made using a programmer's tool -
    The Decision Table Flow charts containing multiple decisions can be reduced to a single table. The decision table can be extended to artificial intelligence applications if the certainty of an entry is not unity.

  • The Johari Window is a concept developed by the psychologists, Joe Luft and Harry Ingham. Most of us present differing aspects of ourselves to different people.

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Created by: Douglas J. Ingalls (1934-1999)

Please send caretaker E-Mail

Revised 17 April 1998

Modified 17 Jun 2008