Posts Tagged ‘math’

PI Day cartoon. When will there be an i-Day!

Friday, March 14th, 2014

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” ?

17 equations that changed the world

Friday, March 14th, 2014

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

Infinite series: When the sum of all positive integers is a small negative fraction.

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

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 & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF HT @Tomorrow_Lab

New Dilemmas for the Prisoner » American Scientist

Tuesday, November 12th, 2013

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
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner #gametheory

New Dilemmas for the Prisoner » American Scientist

Monday, November 11th, 2013

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
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/new-dilemmas-for-the-prisoner #gametheory

Check out 14 amazing fractals found in nature | MNN – Mother Nature Network

Monday, May 6th, 2013

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

Crinkly Curves » American Scientist

Monday, April 29th, 2013

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.16035,y.0,no.,content.true,page.1,css.print/issue.aspx

The Hilbert Hotel – NYTimes.com

Monday, March 11th, 2013

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/the-hilbert-hotel

The Most Striking Equation in Mathematics « Galileo’s Pendulum

Tuesday, February 5th, 2013

Euler’s Eq.
http://galileospendulum.org/2011/12/09/the-most-striking-equation-in-mathematics/

SIAM: M.C. Escher: More Mathematics Than Meets the Eye

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

http://www.siam.org/news/news.php?id=474

Void in center in original is filled in by determining spatial transform and redrawing