The following is blatantly stolen (and slightly adapted) from Cosmic Variance
The decathlon combines ten different track and field events, so to come up with a final score we need some way to tally up all of the scores. You know what that means: an equation. Let’s imagine that you finish the 100 [...]
I’ve just posted the following to this article about the tendency in the UK to see being bad at Maths (and Science) as a mark of pride.
It really annoys me every time a presenter on the news ‘jokes’ that they can’t do maths or science. Melvyn Bragg on the usually excellent “in our time” is [...]
Via xkcd I learned of a new idea called ‘Geohashing‘
Essentially the idea is that based on some seed data, some complicated sums are done to give a location.
People get to that location for a meetup.
A map tool is available which does the sums for you. You set the date, click your area and it gives [...]
I… I will derive… find the derivative of x, position, with respect to time.
It’s as easy as can be, just find dx/dt…. I will derive!
A maths geek parody to the music of Gloria Gaynor. What’s not to like?
The classic 19th century novella, which discusses the mysteries of the mythic ‘third dimension’ to a two dimensional viewer, Flatland, has been made into a movie.
This is something I’d like to see, but it requires transatlantic shipping. If only I’d have spotted it a couple of weeks ago!
A trailer showing A. Square discovering the Third [...]
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