Quanta Magazine
The ‘Useless’ Perspective That Transformed Mathematics
6 min · · Representation theory was initially dismissed. Today, it’s central to much of mathematics. · Shared by 104, including Vikram Dutt, Esther Schindler, 瑞拿頭, Jessel Sookha, David Garner, Christopher D. Long, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
quora.com
How do you find the positive integer solutions to [math]\frac{x}{y+z}+ \frac{y}{z+x}+\frac{z}{x+y} = 4?[/math]
10 min · · I was playing around with several cubic representation problems in the style of previous work by Andrew and Richard Guy. The numerical results were fascinating…” (comment on MathOverflow)This is how… · Shared by 9, including Will Critchlow, 瑞拿頭, Pieter Wuille
The New York Times
Travels with John Conway, in 258 Septillion Dimensions
10 min · · The Princeton mathemagician, who died in April, left an engaging legacy of numerical gamesmanship. · Shared by 18, including 瑞拿頭, Anita Leirfall, Dr. A.S. Barwich
Quanta Magazine
The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics
13+ min · · New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.” · Shared by 538, including @AlgoCompSynth@ravenation.club by znmeb, Liv 😷, BrendanEich, Dez S. Papp, Ward Plunet, Bruce Lawson, Howard Getson, fernand0, Luzius Meisser, Florian Hanke 🍎, Antonio Vieira Santos, Stephan Woodtli, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Azeem Azhar, Ian M Calvert, Niklaus Gerber, Kaspar Manz, Oleg Baskov, Dominik Grolimund, Oliver Reichenstein
Quanta Magazine
How Randomness Can Make Math Easier
2 min · · Randomness would seem to make a mathematical statement harder to prove. In fact, it often does the opposite. · Shared by 12, including 瑞拿頭
wolframphysics.org
The Wolfram Physics Project: Finding the Fundamental Theory of Physics
· Stephen Wolfram leads a new approach to discover the Fundamental Theorem of Physics. Follow project development as it is livestreamed. · Shared by 5, including Wolfram, 瑞拿頭
Bret Victor
Kill Math
17+ min · · The power to understand and predict the quantities of the world should not be restricted to those with a freakish knack for manipulating abstract symbols. When most people speak of Math, what they… · Shared by 29, including Mattia Fregola 🤔, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Paulo Gaspar, 瑞拿頭
medium.com
The Number Zero and Bitcoin
· Satoshi gave the world Bitcoin, a true “something for nothing”. His discovery of absolute scarcity for money is an unstoppable idea that… · Shared by 21, including KOstas, 瑞拿頭
The Spectator
Let’s leave philosophers to puzzle over the reality of numbers
3 min · · Numbers may be abstract concepts, but the figures in our bank accounts and the digits on our clocks are real enough for most of us · Shared by 8, including 瑞拿頭, Anita Leirfall
Towards Data Science
Lessons on How to Lie with Statistics
15+ min · · Timeless Data Literacy Advice · Shared by 14, including Arin Basu, 瑞拿頭
HackerNoon | Learn Any Technology
160+ Data Science Interview Questions
7 min · · A typical interview process for a data science position includes multiple rounds. Often, one of such rounds covers theoretical concepts, where the goal is to determine if the candidate knows the… · Shared by 202, including Matthias Lampe, sircharlsxavier, Niklaus Gerber, 瑞拿頭, Jakub Ferenc
Quanta Magazine
Rainbow Proof Shows Graphs Have Uniform Parts
10 min · · Mathematicians have proved that copies of smaller graphs can always be used to perfectly cover larger ones. · Shared by 23, including Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, 瑞拿頭
medium.com
Essential mathematical GIFs that will make mathematics finally make sense
9 min · · Yes, math textbooks are filled with boring, static blocks of text, numbers, and formulas. And nobody, especially students don’t like long… · Shared by 10, including 瑞拿頭, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
Nautilus Magazine
Abstractions on Nautilus: How Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm
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0a.io
Calculus Explained with pics and gifs
17+ min · · by Archy Will He 魏何阿奇 PROLOGUE Among the things I managed to teach myself after dropping out of school at the age of 16 was calculus. Before I knew what calculus is, merely hearing its name gave me… · Shared by 161, including Kenneth Kalmer, sircharlsxavier, Matthias Lampe, rohit, Mattia Fregola 🤔, Jacob du Toit, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, 瑞拿頭