March 2010
215 posts
dirtylion asked: How do feel about the social acceptability of being bad in math? No one ever brags about being bad in English or being illiterate. But when it comes to anything that has to do with math, including the natural sciences, it seems that you're supposed to be bad in this field. I know that education as a whole is greatly undervalued in our society, and math takes most of that burden. So I was just...
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“Relationships are like algebra. It’s complicated, and sometimes the problems are...”
– George P. Tibbles (via georgetibbles)
johnyhobo asked: how do i find the area of a kite? then using the area and the proportion of a similar triangle with give diagonals, find the original diagonals which were not given?
roadlight-deactivated20100404 asked: hey. what is the exact size of your PORTRAIT PHOTO?
February 2010
243 posts
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Math For Primates (a podcast) →
Just a couple of primates who figured that talking about math was a better use of their time than throwing their poo. Podcasts will cover Mathematics Education, Evolutionary Game Theory, Mathematical Philosophy, Logic, Quantum nonsense, and anything else that seems even remotely tied to mathematics in science or society.
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ƒ (♥) = ?
(submitted by mangtonio)
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Anonymous asked: Can you give me techniques on how to identify the radius and height in a solid of revolution for both the disk/ring and shell method?
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The Mathematics of Cryptology →
I thought this was pretty interesting. Discovered when answering this question.
locogato88 asked: As I take more advance math classes in college, I have realized that my calling is somewhere in the field of cryptology. Seeing as how this is a pretty specialized field, does anyone know which places I could possibly work for in the future?
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Fuck yeah, Fibonacci! →
A page that will show successive numbers in the Fibonacci sequence for as long as you care to scroll down (or your browser deigns not to crash).
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An astronomer, a physicist and a mathematician...
Glancing from a train window, they observed a black sheep in the middle of a field.
“How interesting,” observed the astronomer, “all scottish sheep are black!”
To which the physicist responded, “No, no! Some Scottish sheep are black!”
The mathematician gazed heavenward in supplication, and then intoned, “In Scotland there exists at least one field,...
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A bunch of Polish scientists decided to flee their...
They drove to the airport, forced their way on board a large passenger jet, and found there was no pilot on board. Terrified, they listened as the sirens got louder. Finally, one of the scientists suggested that since he was an experimentalist, he would try to fly the aircraft.
He sat down at the controls and tried to figure them out. The sirens got louder and louder. Armed men surrounded the...
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The Flood is over and the ark has landed. Noah...
A few months later, Noah decides to take a stroll and see how the animals are doing. Everywhere he looks he finds baby animals. Everyone is doing fine except for one pair of little snakes. “What’s the problem?” says Noah. “Cut down some trees and let us live there”, say the snakes.
Noah follows their advice. Several more weeks pass. Noah checks on the snakes...
Anonymous asked: When you're not loving math, what are you doing?
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riiiotgrrrl asked: I'm taking a honors Geometry class, and I just don't understand theorems/proofs at all. And it's not as if I can ask someone for help, because it's an online class. So if you or anyone can possibly help me? I would love you for life.
“I wish I were a derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves.”
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