Tag Archives: mathematics

The Genius Who Lives Downstairs

Posted on Sunday, August 28, 2011 by author-unknown

Alexander Masters |
The Guardian |
Aug 2011
Excerpted from the author’s biography of mathematician Simon Phillips Norton.
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Did Futurama get the Banach-Tarski Paradox right? [Maths]

Posted on Thursday, July 7, 2011 by author-unknown

The Banach-Tarski Dupla-Shrinker recently made an appearance on an episode of Futurama. Using it, Bender got to make two, slightly smaller, copies of himself. The smaller Benders are why they added the ‘shrinker’ part of the name. The actual Banach-Tar… Continue reading →

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An easy-to-make sequence that fooled random number checkers [Mathematics]

Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2011 by author-unknown

Take a look at Champernowne’s Constant. It’s a ridiculously easy sequence to make, and yet it fooled programs designed to root out underlying order in seemingly random numbers.
David Gawen Champernowne was born in 1912. When he was an undergraduate in … Continue reading →

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No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto by Michael Hartl | Tau Day, 2010

Posted on Thursday, February 3, 2011 by Beanbag

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Hidden Fractals Suggest Answer to Ancient Math Problem

Posted on Friday, January 28, 2011 by author-unknown

Researchers have found a fractal pattern underlying everyday math. In the process, they’ve discovered a way to calculate partition numbers, a challenge that’s stymied mathematicians for centuries.
Partition numbers track the different ways an inte… Continue reading →

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Sage: Open Source Mathematics Software

Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 by Beanbag

Sage is a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL. It combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface. Continue reading →

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Book: The Poincaré Conjecture

Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 by Beanbag

The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O’Shea. Walker & Company, 2007. In The Poincaré Conjecture, Donal O’Shea explains a conjecture in topology from 1904 that had remained unsolved for nearly a century. Aside … Continue reading →

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