June 2010
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just a note
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not so fast, e^x
The cocky exponential function ex is strolling along the road insulting the functions he sees walking by. He scoffs at a wandering polynomial for the shortness of its Taylor series. He snickers at a passing smooth function of compact support and its glaring lack of a convergent power series about many of its points. He positively laughs as he passes |x| for being nondifferentiable at the origin....
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A Woman in a Bar (Math, Phy, Eng Series)
A mathematician and an engineer are sitting at a table drinking when a very beautiful woman walks in and sits down at the bar.
The mathematician sighs. “I’d like to talk to her, but first I have to cover half the distance between where we are and where she is, then half of the distance that remains, then half of that distance, and so on. The series is infinite. There’ll always...
My Answer
So I was thinking yesterday about how I’ve never even come close to having a girlfriend, and was beginning to approach the conclusion that the problem must reside in mine own self. I was on the verge of accepting this pessimistic conclusion, when I decided that rather than attempting to come to terms with this unsupported theory of self-defect, I would test it. And so I sat down in front of...
reading the golden ratio in french →
digital math music
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What's so special about this number? →
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“If they say that two negatives make a positive in math, isn’t that nonsense in...”
– Chi Señires (crazeythechi) (via quotandom)
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“I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language...”
– Lucas Grabeel (via ilikethegirl)
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Los Angeles Teacher Uses Hip Hop To Teach Algebra →
(via oracorey)
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Two Mathematicians walk into a bar (Version 2)
Two mathematicians walk into a bar
The first one says to the second that the average person knows very little about basic mathematics. The second one disagrees, and claims that most people can cope with a reasonable amount of math.
The second mathematician goes off to the washroom, and in his absence the first calls over the waitress.
He tells her that in a few minutes, after his friend has...
I’ll take you to the limit as x approaches infinity.
Prime Numbers (Math, Phy, Eng Series)
A mathematician, physicist, and engineer are taking a math test. One question asks “Are all odd numbers prime?”
The mathematician thinks, “3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not prime — nope, not all odd numbers are prime.”
The physicist thinks, ” 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not prime — that could be experimental error — 11 is...
