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Benno Artmann - The Cloisters of Hauterive One of the most typical elements of Gothic architecture is the tracery found in windows, on walls, and in many other places in Gothic churches. What is mathematical about it? Tracery is exclusively constructed from circular arcs and straight line segments! It is the most math...
I suggested earlier that the real number set was infinitely dense, i.e. between any two numbers, however close to each other they are, there are an arbitrarily large number of numbers in between them. This fact was recognized 2000+ years ago by Pythagoras and others when it was thought that all numbers could be represe...
Friday, October 9 Melding Math and Creativity Sometimes you need to go to extra lengths to learn and appreciate a subject. I have a deep love for trigonometry and I wanted something to draw interest to the unit circle. My friend and I collaborated on creating this wheel which spins because it is actually a wooden la...
Menu Trying to show how useful math can be Physics Math vs. Math Math I had this interesting discussion today with one of the instructors from my summer course in physics. She was a math major, then became a physics major (I'm not sure if she finished one before starting the other). And she claimed very strongly tha...
authors' novel approach to some interesting mathematical concepts - not normally taught in other courses - places them in a historical and philosophical setting. Although primarily intended for mathematics undergraduates, the book will also appeal to students in the sciences, humanities and education with a strong inte...
Have you ever reflected on whether you like odd numbers or even ones? In this modern time, we find them all around us. The digital world in which we live makes numbers very visible to us, whether we want to see them or not. Clocks and watches very often now are digital. Controls in car dashboards are most likely digita...
Learn about this topic in these articles: mathematical anti-Platonism Nominalism is the view that mathematical objects such as numbers and sets and circles do not really exist. Nominalists do admit that there are such things as piles of three eggs and ideas of the number 3 in people's heads, but they do not think tha...
Mathematics Mathematics is a language. It allows us to think in a different way – to find solutions, to learn to think about thinking skills, to see routines as patterns, to decipher concepts and apply these to new situations, and in so doing to develop new skills. Mathematical thinking gives us clarity via reasoning....
Ever since men felt the need to count, the history of calculus begins, which together with Mathematics is one of the oldest and most useful science. Since men felt that need for counting objects, this need led to the creation of systems that allowed them to maintain control of their properties. They initially did it wi...
A fractal is a geometric object that retains its complexity under any level of magnification. Many fractals are self-similar in that the fractal image is infinitely repeated on a smaller scale as one "zooms" into the object. The most famous of the fractal objects is the Mandelbrot Set named after its discoverer, Benoit...
Intrigue plus suspense equals a fine mathematical mystery January 08, 2006|By Dorothy Clark, Boston Globe Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism and the Quest to Understand the Universe By Amir D. Aczel Broadway, 288 pages, $24.95 Amir D. Aczel, a professor of mathematical sciences at B...
The Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 and died on 26 April 1920. It was in recognition of his contribution to mathematics the Government of India decided to celebrate Ramanujan's birthday as the National Mathematics Day every year. Share Share Car Sagan The Man who inspired ...
6 Riddles That Defy Logic Facebook: Twitter: Only Geniuses Can Find All The Differences Only a Genius Can Solve These 7 Brainteasers in 30 Second What does the padlock icon on your internet browser mean and why is encryption important? In this clip from 2008 CHRISTMAS LECTURES "Hi-tech trek", Chris Bishop uses colo...
Math, you see, isn't about objective truth. Most people think math is somehow intristic to the world around us, when it's actually an invention, something man created in order to quantify the world around us. Mathematics does not deal with reality; it deals entirely with unreal quantities and ideas, with abstract numbe...
Mathematics Amusements in Mathematics, is a book of mathematical puzzles written by Henry Ernest Dudeney, an English mathematician remembered as creator of mathematical puzzles. This book contains detailed description of various type of puzzles and how to solve them using algebra and mathematics. A huge list of puzzle...
GOLDEN RATIO PDF DOWNLOAD RATIO GOLDEN Explores Fibonacci numbers and the golden section in nature, art, geometry, architecture, music, geometry and for calculating pi As explained by Live Science, "The golden ratio Golden ratio is a special number found by dividing a line into two parts so that the longer part divid...
Main navigation graphs Looking at numbers is a boring task. Its not supposed to be pretty or entertaining as such, its supposed to be informative and has been since 1644 when Michael Florent van Langren created the first graph. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Charts and graphs do however make dat...
Internet Resources Sales Training Means Business - Copyright 2006 Sherry Harris You can be a master in producing world-class products and may be among the best in the business, but that is not enough. Why Study Math The Circle - Analytic Geometry is a branch of mathematics that treats the relation of algebraic functi...
30 Dec 2012 views:1287911 Apr 2014 views:32808Ancient civilizations needed the value of π to be computed accurately for practical reasons. It was calculated to seven digits, using geometrical techniques, in Chinese mathematics and to about five in Indian mathematics in the 5th century CE. The historically first exact...
Restrictions: Not for postcard or product use without clearance NOT FOR USE ON A PRODUCT WITHOUT CLEARANCE Caption: Fractal 3-D geometry. Computer graphic image entitled Nightclub Ridge with a false-colour sky added in the background. The image was derived from the Phoenix fractal equation. Fractal images are usually ...
The text cautions that the exclamation point at the end of the n is not to be taken as evidence of mathematical excitement but why not? when each number nudging its neighbor to multiply multiply multiply to n must be in a state of exhilaration approaching ecstasy before exhaustion so why not read it the way
The Project: A tessellation is a potentially endless repeated pattern made up of one or more shapes that fit together like puzzle pieces with no gaps or overlaps. Squares and other quadrilaterals, triangles, and hexagons can be used and even modified to createinterlocking shapes. Word tessellation is derived from the ...
Students in math classes often complain that they will never use their mathematical knowledge outside of school. They may balance a checkbook, but will statistics change the world? Dr. Ruriko Yoshida uses statistics to solve real world problems such as how diseases mutate, how to optimize resources, how to optimize eva...
Now even more focused and specialized phenomena have become the topic of 'biographies' in this vein. Where Zero and Infinity seemed the dynamic duo, the Robin and Batman of the previous generation of popular math books, the new protagonist superheroes are the Prime numbers. Partly, this is due to the publicity afforded...
In mathematics, division by zero is division where the divisor (denominator) is zero. Such a division can be formally expressed as a/0 where a is the dividend (numerator). In ordinary arithmetic, the expression has no meaning, as there is no number which, multiplied by 0, gives a (assuming a≠0), and so division by zero...
From the mysterious cult of Pythagoras to the impressive mechanics of Stonehenge to the "gargoyles" and fractals on today's pcs, arithmetic has consistently reliable Math is your advisor to a few of the main interesting themes from thousand years of arithmetic: from Egyptian fractions to Turing machines; from the genui...
The Law of Octaves was first suggested by Pythagoras in ancient Greece. Having observed that the eight notes of the conventional Occidental musical scale were governed by definite mathematical relationships, Pythagoras proceeded to create a whole cosmology based on 8s. In this octagonal model Pythagoras made numerous m...
Comentário do relatório "I like your visualization of the Random Numbers example, although I think my brain would prefer to slide first and scale afterwards, because it's a lot easier for me to visualize moving to the start point first and then stretching towards the end point. (Also, it's easier to carry a small 1 ra...
Happy Pi Day! Happy Pi Day, everyone! March 14 (3.14) at 1:59 (you get the idea) is the peak of Pi Day, a celebration of the Greek letter which represents the irrational number by which the diameter of a circle is multiple in order to obtain the circumference ... but you guys knew that, right? The sixteenth letter of...
Search Main menu You are here Brian Cook I am particularly interested in applications of combinatorial and classical / higher order Fourier analytic methods to problems in number theory, such as Diophantine equations in many variables, and analysis, such as geometric Ramsey type problems.
Tools "... Number sense " is a short-hand for our ability to quickly understand, approximate, and manipulate numerical quantities. My hypothesis is that number sense rests on cerebral circuits that have evolved specifically for the purpose of representing basic arithmetic knowledge. Four lines of evidence ..." Number...
Curry's Paradox and the Notion of Area Curry's Paradox and the Notion of Area: Part I Here is a wonderful paradox due to Paul Curry that challenges our beliefs on how area behaves. In this video I show the paradox, resolve paradox, and then in parts II and III of the video show how I use the paradox in teaching. Curr...
Friday, April 13, 2012 Sophie's Diary: A Mathematical Novel Sophie's Diary: A Mathematical Novelis a work of fiction inspired by French mathematician Sophie Germain. It chronicles the coming of age of a teenager learning mathematics on her own, growing up during the most turbulent years of the French Revolution. The ...
For the last several years in the United States and the UK, there has been a strong push to teach primary and secondary-school students how to code. Whether this is a good idea or not, I personally have enjoyed learning about programming. One of my current hopes is to do more programming using the Python programming la...
News tagged with equation UCLA mathematics professor Joseph Teran, a Walt Disney consultant on animated movies since 2007, is under no illusion that artists want lengthy mathematics lessons, but many of them realize that the success of animated movies ... (Phys.org) —One of the cornerstones of quantum physics is the ...
Approximations of Pi It is "irrational number" and its decimal expansion therefore does not terminate or repeat. The first 10 decimal places are: 3.14159 26535 … Fractional approximations to Pi There are few fractional approximations to Pi (that give very close approximation of the "pi"). In order of increasing ac...
That's the Greek letter pi, the mathematical value of which is (approximately) 3.14159265 (equal to the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter). So that's why it must have occurred to some mathematician/foodie to nominate March 14 each year as Pie Day, 3/14. Anyhow, any day is a good day to have pie! I ...
Maths and Ti vs. Te Ok, so what are the differences in Ti and Te approach to maths? I wonder if Te is all about equations, and playing with those stupid symbols, and getting closer and closer to figuring out what x equals on the paper an so on.. while Ti is about understanding the principle, and is better at finding s...
Fractal UXL Encyclopedia of Science COPYRIGHT 2002 The Gale Group, Inc. Fractal A fractal is a geometric figure with two special properties. First, it is irregular, fractured, fragmented, or loosely connected in appearance. Second, it is self-similar; that is, the figure looks much the same no matter how far away or...
Other examples of the power and insidiousness of exponential growth are the lilly example (Meadows et al. 1972, p. 29) and the "secret of the Persian chessboard" (Meadows et al. 1972, p. 29 and Sagan 1989). In the former example, the following question is posed: If a lilly floating on a pond doubles in size every day a...
Secret of Hidden Space and Stopped Time Those who studied mathematics know natural numbers and imaginary numbers (i). In the numbers, there are natural numbers such as -1, -2, -3 and 0, 1, 2, 3. And there are decimals and fractions indicating the gap. They have a clear meaning conceptually and physically. For an inst...
Using math to mitigate traffic By Zoe Lance When Mayra Sahagun is driving to the CI campus, she pays special attention to the road. She notices which freeway entrances have ramp meters and where lanes merge. She glances at the clock when traffic seems particularly heavy or light, and makes a mental note of where the ...
The Prettier Side of Math My problem with the former is that I believe this kind of math lives up to the famous quote by Charles Darwin, the father of the Theory of Evolution (see previous post): "A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there." At least for me, when I try to ...
Rubik's Cube Rubik's Cube Originally called the Magic Cube, the Rubik's Cube is a puzzle for one person. At first glance, it consists of twenty-seven individual cubes, which form a large 3x3x3 cube. In actual fact, however, it only consists of twenty-one elements, namely an axis system with six fixed central pieces, ...
game library mathematical mathematics new To mathematixs credit, Packel notes although Pascal and Fermat brought this knowledge to the Western world, the triangle was known earlier in both China and Persia, where it is known as the "Khayyam triangle" after the Persian poet and astronomer Omar Khayyam. Most gamblers a...
It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. Wednesday, June 25, 2014 Pi = 3.0 I've always enjoyed telling people that various state legislatures had passed bills making pi equal 3.0. I usually pick on Kentucky or Mississippi. I usually place Kentucky's boneh...
Ning Diary: Jan. 26 - Roman counting game Synchronicity: just last night I was showing somebody this game AND this morning someone wrote and asked me to explain it to her again... which is the perfect excuse to publish it here. Just like we do, the Romans counted on their fingers. The Roman numerals I, V and X are NO...
I read a book on the philosophy of set theory -- and I get lost right at the point where classical infinite thought was replaced by modern infinite thought. IIRC the problem was paradoxes based on infinite recursion (Zeno et. all) and finding mathematical foundations to satisfy calculus limits. Then something about Can...
More Activities: Mathematicians are not the people who find Maths easy; they are the people who enjoy how mystifying, puzzling and hard it is. Are you a mathematician?Transum, Monday, December 2, 2013 "As an extension activity consider the following questions: How many magic squares are there that contain the number...
"Over the years, I have seen a lot of folklore and bad math employed to determine how to work with non-square pixels, resulting in a plethora of incorrect working practices. Therefore, in this article I'm going to spend a lot of time laying out the historical and mathematical basis for where these numbers came from. Ho...
Mar 10, 2011 ... March 14, 2011, also known as pi day, is almost upon us. It is called pi day because if you write it out in numbers it is 3.14, which is the commonly used abbreviation for pi (Π). So in honor of pi day I thought I would do 50 fun facts about pi (this is also my homework for Ms.Miskelly, but I only need...
January 6, 2011 Mathematicians and architects will be familiar with the Golden Ratio, a very important ratio which occurs in nature (logarithmic spirals) and many man-made things (ancient Greek temples). More information is (here). In a nutshell, a line divided by the Golden Ratio into two segments will have a long s...
MATH-ART: 9 December 1995 — 24 January 1996 In honour of the 1995 Canadian Math Society Winter Meeting, Simon Fraser University presents: To navigate this exhibit, scroll down. Those images on a yellow background have extra information about how they were created. Three public events take place on December 9 at Simo...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 Math is like music, statistics is like literature We haven't evolved to be statisticians. Our students who think statistics is an unnatural subject are right. This isn't how humans think naturally. But it is how humans think rationally. And it is how scientists think. This is the way we mu...
Mathematics is much more than finding sums, differences, products, and quotients. Mathematics is a way of looking at the world. As a mathematician, you view the world looking for regularity and order or the lack of order and regularity. Point Symmetry We are surrounded by all types of symmetry, a type of regularity a...
Even people who are *not* frightened of math can enjoy and learn from this book's accounts of the rudiments of number theory, algebra, Euclidean geometry, analytic geometry, and group theory -- perhaps picking up some points they missed in their high-school math courses. Pask also discusses some applications to science...
Where does pi come from?
Serie VI, Nr 6c The space curve of order three on cylinders of second order; the parabola of order three. Mathematical description This model is a space curve represented on an parabolic cylinder. This curve is the intersection of the parabolic cylinder and a cone. The parabolic cylinder is: y = x2 z = z. A cone ca...
Mathematics and Music As Languages Extracts from this document... Introduction Mathematics and Music As Languages Johnson Chan As natural language is part of our daily routine, mathematics and music are also important forms of communication and expression. The essence of this paper is to dissect and investigate the ...
Puzzles I'm down south for a while (the lower-48 for those not familiar with the Alaskan terminology) and find I have more time than usual for reading. Right now I'm in the middle of Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh. It's the story of a several hundred year-old theorem that resisted proof by the greatest mathematical mi...
Slide RulesTyler LeBlanc Tyler LeBlanc Prof. Sullivan CRJ 362 2/6/2017 Enron's Scandal Dismantle Enron was a Houston based corporation founded in 1985, that reached the peak of the business world in the late nineties to early Two thousands. Enron was known for their business savvy techniques, on the other hand it was n...
Mathematics in the Life Sciences Mathematics reaches into almost every area of biology and medicine. Quantitative methods are increasingly valued by biologists seeking to make sense of complex systems, or seeking to extract useful information from large experimental datasets. The life science and healthcare arenas ar...
Mathmensch has left the English Wikipedia, since he can't explain the rationale behind every one of his edits three times, and was verbally attacked by User:Joel B. Lewis and User:Triacylglyceride, who didn't want to realize their mistakes, and the admins didn't take any action, and to the contrary I was blamed.
The Mathematics Portal Mathematics is the study of numbers, quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematics mathematical disciplines, such as statistics and game theory. Mathematicians also engage in pure mathematics, or mathematics for its own sake, without having any application in mind. There is no clear line s...
The only two digits found in all standard bases are 1 and 0. But they behave quite differently. Suppose you take the integers 1 to 100 and compare the number of 1s and 0s in the representation of each integer, n, in bases 2 to n-1. For example, 10 would look like this: The bigger the numbers get, the bigger the discre...
Around The World Intuition does not always help us getting mathematical results right. Au contraire, some very simple results are blatantly counter-intuitive. For example, the circumference of a circle of radius is given by: Let's say we're interested in the Earth's circumference. The radius is something in the order...
Figuring How To Get There From Here Have you ever tried to wrap your head around something that just doesn't seem possible, but it is?I remember a couple of summers ago fighting with what's referred to as "The Monty Hall Problem" until it seemed like I was going to go nuts.Since I don't want you to go nuts, I won't go...
Number Theory, which is typically referred to as "The Queen of Mathematics" is a branch of pure mathematics that investigates the properties of the integers. In this talk we provide a historical overview of classical number theory and examine various real world applications of number theory. Lastly, if time permits, we...
This blog is about Simon, a young gifted programmer, who had to move from Amsterdam to Antwerp to be able to study at the level that fits his talent, i.e. homeschool. This is what you need math for "Well, do you know what pi divided by four is? That's an eighth of the full rotation!" – I hear Simon talk to himself in...
Monday, May 30, 2011 List of common misconceptions Part VI, VII, and VIII Math, Physics, and Psychology Mathematics Contrary to a widespread perception, the real number0.999...—where the decimal point is followed by an infinite sequence of nines—is exactly equal to 1.[193] They are two different ways of writing the ...
HLF Blogs – The numbers behind the young researchersThe view on the boat deck – plenty of young researchers to corner! Having extensively covered the talks and press conferences of the Laureates so far, we thought it was time to talk to some of the Young Researchers at this year's HLF about the work they're doing. We...
Alert! Hello, reader! If you intend to post a link to this blog on Twitter, be aware that for utterly mysterious reasons, Twitter thinks this blog is spam, and will prevent you from linking to it. Here's a workaround: change the .com in the address to .ca. I call it the "Maple Leaf Loophole." And thanks for sharing! ...
Monday, February 27, 2006 Mathematical Dog When Elvis and Pennings go to the beach, they always play fetch. Standing at the water's edge, Pennings throws a tennis ball out into the waves, and Elvis eagerly retrieves it. When Pennings throws the ball at an angle to the shoreline, Elvis has several options. He can run ...
Petal Patterns How many petals does this Dahlia have? I never tried to count them, but just gazing at the picture makes me feel as if I am lost in those petals. It does give the feel as if the number of petals belongs to Fibonacci series but it is hard to prove because the petals are arranged in several layers. It is ...
Into infinity...and beyond;Maths Share this "Why do you ask?" "My book says, 'No other world was carried through the starry infinity on the backs of four giant elephants'. I wondered how big infinity is." Terry Pratchett fans will recognise Jo's quote from Discworld. Pratchett has created an imaginary universe and a...
1) PERCENT CE Calculate the percentage of any number out of any number.Great little tool to have on hand. 2) Fomdigests Grep the Fom is e-mail list for discussing Foundations Of Mathematics. instead of receiving each fom message as an individual e-mail, you will receive groups of messages clumpsed together. Helps to w...
So I learned recently about transfinite cardinals, and that there are more real numbers than natural numbers. But this is bothering me, because I also learned about computable numbers, which are the numbers whose digits can be enumerated by a turing machine. (computer) Like pi. But any number that can be represented at...
5 Islamic[edit] The Five Pillars of Islam Muslims pray to Allah five times a day In Islam, particularly Shia Islam, the Panjetan or the Five Holy Purified Ones are the members of I just discovered that there are more Dragon Box games and they are excited to get their hands on them. Learn more You're viewing YouTube in...
Mathematics, The loss of certainty Mathematics has an air of being the most secure form of knowledge. In Mathematics, The Loss of Certainty, however, Morris Kline shows that this is not necessarily deserved. He shows how, rather than mathematics being an obvious progression of knowledge, in fact many ideas in the subj...
Golden section - The Golden Section is a mathematical ratiothat generates a very special rectangle.It is special because it's thought to have timeless,harmonious proportions, but does it really?Well, there are examples of it in all of the artsand architecture, music, painting, and a whole lot more.Also called the Gold...
, than this is going to be just a quick game for you. In our day to day life, we measure distance by virtue of the theorem of Pythagoras. The theorem provides a metric, but if we change the way we measure (in other words, if we change the metric), do we change the appearance of things? Is the square going to look like...
ENSLEY DISCRETE MATHEMATICS ENSLEY MATHEMATICS DISCRETE Italoamericani or italo-americani [ˌitalo.ameriˈkaːni]) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans who have full or partial ancestry. Sets and Boolean Algebra Section 3.1. Chapter 3. Set definitions and operations. Background Sudden death from cardiac discrete ...
In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to (=) the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. The golden ratio is an irrational mathematical constant, approximately 1.6180339887 Take a piece of A4 paper (ratio o...
Calculatormatik is a math tool that includes a broad variety of calculators and converters from common to unusual. Some examples include angle converter, area calculator/converter, binary to number, body mass index, body Surface area, numbers to Roman, numbers to string, Ohm's Law, volume/weight, water consumption, and...
Gosay's Hypotheses The alphabets and numbers There is no value for "3" when there is no "0" or "1" or "2". Where as the alphabets it has nothing to do with it. The alphabets are unique, where numbers are interdependent. And so I believe that the mind the intellectual being is symbolic representation of the numbers. ...
Menger's Sponge - named for its inventor Karl Menger and sometimes wrongly called Sierpinski's Sponge – was the first three dimensional fractal that mathematicians became aware of. In 1995 Dr Jeannine Mosely, a software engineer, set out to build a Level 3 Menger Sponge from business cards. After 9 years of effort, inv...
Research Thinking in Numbers On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math The irresistibly engaging book that "enlarges one's wonder at Tammet's mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers." --Oliver Sacks, MD THINKING IN NUMBERS is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling auth...
Simmered Mackerel in miso-based sauce How drawn a pattern of fish? Alan Turing's Patterns in Nature. Turing patterns in fish. We can also see that in mackerel skins. Alan Turing, the English mathematician, in 1952 described the way in which non-uniformity (natural patterns such as 縞 stripes, 斑点 spots and 螺旋 spirals)...
FIB joke Just got off the phone with Lenny Fibonacci. He, Jones and Gann were over at Dow's house, but Charley was down at the seashore looking at waves. The three of them had broken into Dow's liquor cabinet so Lenny had a few minutes to take my call. He explained that the whole "fib thing" was just a big joke. Ther...
You are here Zombie epidemics - Mathematical modelling of the apocalypse The modelling of the spread of epidemics forms a large and active area of research. The onset of a zombie apocalypse seems like an ideal time to make use of this work… if we are not prepared then how can we hope to survive? But zombies don't see...
was a mathematician who codified number sequences and spatial relationships of objects found in nature and used by ancient architects. His book, Liber abaci, was influential in the adoption of arabic numerals. The Fibonacci numbers are 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... (add the last two to get the next)
How Pi Saved Your Favorite Scifi Heroes Pi is an important number that's been hanging around for about 4,000 years now. It represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Divide the circumference of a circle by the diameter and you'll get Pi. No matter what size the circle is, the answer will always ...
Sequence, Series & Progression Instructors There are a number of patterns in nature – leaves and flowers with similar structures, the ripples on a lake and many more patterns. Mathematicians explain these patterns in nature; to work on mathematical models and understand the basics of geometric shapes and structures. ...
Maths: Fourth Dimension VideosThe 4th dimension may be interpreted either as time, or as a literal fourth dimension of space, a fourth spatial dimension. Rotating shadow of a tesseract rotating on a single axis and a single plane is fine example of 4th dimension. Mathematicians, freed in their imaginations from physic...
Exercises The brutal tradeoff between precision and the range of the describable is seen clearly in both mathematics and physics, particularly with respect to so-called states of consciousness, assuming anyone really knows what is meant by the word consciousness. This assumption must be made to state the exercise. Ima...
About Me I am curious about the inner workings of things and how things got to be the way they are. Learning has always fascinated me - both my own and that of my students. How do our brains encode, store and reconstruct experiences so that our behavior adapts? Friday, May 14, 2010 The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness o...
Two sisters. One blog. Off to save the world from sanity. and hunger. and climate change. and glow sticks. Friday, January 24, 2014 Why Applied Mathematicians Make the Best Brownies Melissa, So this semester I am taking a mathematical biology class. (Yes, I can hear the people shuddering in the distance) But I real...
Sacred Geometry Workshops on sacred geometry and the scaffolding of aesthetics coming soon. Please contact BeauxArtsAcademy@gmail.com for more information. SACRED GEOMETRY "Now the sole reason why painters of this sort are not aware of their own error is that they have not learned geometry, without which no one can...
14-16 You might be looking forward to dropping maths at the first available opportunity, but don't be too hasty. Whether you plan to go on to work, A-levels (or equivalent), or other further studies, a good understanding of maths will be useful to you and will improve your problem-solving and decision-making skills. R...
To explain it further, the Pythagorean theorem can so easily show you infinitely many of irrational numbers on a straight line (which is the same as real number line), such as (sqrt(2), sqrt(sqrt(7)), 31^(1/16), ...), But tell me frankly if any known theorem can show you exactly and only one of those infinitely many a...