February 2011
53 posts
January 2011
64 posts
NPR's Robert Krulwich on Intuitive Mathematics
creativelearningmsu:
Last month, when Vi Hart’s math doodling video (below) was zooming around the internet, Robert Krulwich (NPR science correspondent and host of the fabulous Radiolab) made a wonderful connection.
You may have noticed she’s a touch angry about how math is taught in America. She thinks it can be done better — more intuitively, joyously.
So does Paul Lockhart, a math...
The awkward moment when your Algebra II teacher -
shahnaynay:
is doing an unfathomable equation on the board, finishes, then walks away with more swagger than T-Pain.
He’s all, “Get at me, brah.”
And we’re like;
Angry birds as an expression of the human... →
rmward:
The complex math our brains are capable of is amazing, and the fact that it’s approximate and completely non-numerical makes it all the more fascinating to me. I’d love to understand how our brains can instinctively figure out the flight path of a thrown ball, but (most of us) can’t do relatively simple multiplication in our heads.
Sheldon: What is the best number? By the way, there's only one correct answer.
Raj: 5,318,008?
Sheldon: Wrong! The best number is 73. [Short silence] You're probably wondering why.
Leonard & Howard: No no, we're good.
Sheldon: 73, is the 21st prime number, it's mirror 37 is the 12th and it's mirror 21 is the product of multiplying, hang on to your hats, 7 and 3. Did I lie?
Leonard: We did it! 73 is the... Chuck Norris of numbers!
Sheldon: Chuck Norris wishes! In binary, 73 is a palindrome, 1001001, which backwards is 1001001, exactly the same. All Chuck Norris gets you backwards is Sirron Kcuhc!
Raj: Just for the record, when you enter 5,318,008 in a calculator, upside down it spells BOOBIES!
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STEPHEN HAWKING: How to build a time machine →
«Let’s imagine I’m throwing a party, a welcome reception for future time travellers. But there’s a twist. I’m not letting anyone know about it until after the party has happened. I’ve drawn up an invitation giving the exact coordinates in time and space. I am hoping copies of it, in one form or another, will be around for many thousands of years. Maybe one day someone living in the future will...
The feeling you get when you understand something...
melissavao:
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Whenever I do math I'm just like...
shealynne:
And then when I get an answer wrong Im like,
Wikipedia | Banach-Tarski paradox →
The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem in set theoretic geometry which states that a solid ball in 3-dimensional space can be split into a finite number of non-overlapping pieces, which can then be put back together in a different way to yield two identical copies of the original ball.
When my teacher hands back our Math exam:
itsforeverornever:
At first I know I failed so I accept the fact that I’m a failure at life:
Then I get it back and it’s not as bad as I thought it would be:
Then I hear the bitch behind me crying because she got 95%:
She makes me feel so sad about my mark so I just glare at her:
But then I remember I’m better looking than her so I’m like:
But really I turn around to her and I’m...
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2011 in phi
fuckyeahfibonacci:
The first occurrence of the digit sequence ‘2011’ occurs in the decimal expansion of phi (the Golden Ratio) at decimal place 7495.
Interestingly, it is preceded by an additional 3 repetitions of the digit ‘2’ and followed by the sequence ‘62’ repeated twice.
‘2011’ does not reoccur in phi until decimal place 15192.
