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Article: Op-Ed: 364-Day Calendar Intriguing But Unnecessary
Op-Ed: 364-Day Calendar Intriguing But Unnecessary https://www.npr.org/2012/01/02/144583975/op-ed-364-day-calendar-intriguing-but-unnecessary mentions knuckle counting, viz...
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An Adventure in the Nth Dimension » American Scientist
An Adventure in the Nth Dimension » American Scientist http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/an-adventure-in-the-nth-dimension n-ball size v n: pi, 4.2=pi*4/3, 5=(pi^2)/2, 5.3=(8/15)*pi^2, 5.2,...
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SIAM: M.C. Escher: More Mathematics Than Meets the Eye
http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=474
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SIAM: M.C. Escher: More Mathematics Than Meets the Eye
http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=474 Void in center in original is filled in by determining spatial transform and redrawing
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The Most Striking Equation in Mathematics « Galileo’s Pendulum
Euler’s Eq. http://galileospendulum.org/2011/12/09/the-most-striking-equation-in-mathematics/
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The Hilbert Hotel – NYTimes.com
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/the-hilbert-hotel
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Crinkly Curves » American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.16035,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx
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Check out 14 amazing fractals found in nature | MNN – Mother Nature Network
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/blogs/14-amazing-fractals-found-in-nature trees, current, shorelines, water, broccoli…. Look at fractal journey movie at end of article
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New Dilemmas for the Prisoner » American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner New Dilemmas for the Prisoner: Weird things happen in with repeated iterations of the #PrisonersDilemma...
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New Dilemmas for the Prisoner » American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner New Dilemmas for the Prisoner: Weird things happen with repeated iterations of the #PrisonersDilemma...
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Infinite series: When the sum of all positive integers is a small negative...
Simply the Most Astonishing #Math You’ll Ever See: 1+2+3+4+… = -1/12 http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/17/infinite_series_when_the_sum_of_all_positive_integers_is_a_small_negative.html...
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17 equations that changed the world
MT @lets_experiment 17 #equations that changed the world pic.twitter.com/9zIfJPxFFJ Great list but would’ve included S=k*lnW w/ dS>0 in eq#12
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PI Day cartoon. When will there be an i-Day!
Particularly appropriate for the lab! MT @wxgarrett Happy “Pi Day” (3.14) #PiDay2014 pic.twitter.com/INAV25uvUD Great cartoon for today but will there be a matching “i day” ?
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Math Explains Likely Long Shots, Miracles and Winning the Lottery –...
#Math Explains Likely Long Shots: Nice illustration of the combinatorics of why 23 people usually share a birthday...
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A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity
Billionaire Mathematician’s Life http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/science/a-billionaire-mathematicians-life-of-ferocious-curiosity.html “I wasn’t the fastest guy…but I like to ponder[;] turns out to...
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Candy Crush’s Puzzling Mathematics » American Scientist
Candy Crush’s Puzzling #Mathematics http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.16278,y.2014,no.6,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx Game reducible to a NP-hard logic circuit; maybe useful in...
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Mathematicians Make a Major Discovery About Prime Numbers | WIRED
Major Discovery About #Prime Numbers http://www.wired.com/2014/12/mathematicians-make-major-discovery-prime-numbers Extension of trick to find spans of composites, eg start w/ 101! add 2,3,4…101 QT:{{“...
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Solving an Unsolvable Math Problem – The New Yorker
The pursuit of beauty http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/02/02/pursuit-beauty Zhang’s 2 accomplishments: Solving a #math mystery about gaps in primes & Doing it after age 50 Profiles FEBRUARY...
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John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician | Siobhan...
John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic #mathematician http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horton-conway-the-most-charismatic-mathematician-in-the-world...
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Rock-paper-scissors may explain evolutionary ‘games’ in nature
Rock-paper-scissors may explain evolutionary ‘games’ http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2015/05/rock-paper-scissors-may-explain-evolutionary-games-nature How aggressive, cooperative & deceptive...
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