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The Things That Mathematics Cannot Explain
7 min read · From 2019 · There are some mind blowing facts and games related to mathematics that even mathematics cannot explain. I just like to call those facts…
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The Hardy-Ramanujan number 1729
10 min read · From 2019 · When Hardy came to see Ramanujan in the hospital at Putney that day in 1918, not only did Ramanujan recognize the properties of the…
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The n-Category Café
5 min read · From 2019 · I’ve been trying to understand the Riemann Hypothesis a bit better. Don’t worry, I’m not trying to prove it — that’s a dangerous quest. Indeed Ricardo Pérez-Marco has a whole list of things not to do…
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The Ramanujan Summation: 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12?
9 min read · From 2019 · “What on earth are you talking about? There’s no way that’s true!” — My mom
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Tamás Görbe on Twitter
10 min read · From 2019 · “A Mathematician's Way* of Converting Miles to Kilometers • 1 mi ≈ 1.609 km • The ratio of consecutive Fibonacci numbers Fₙ₊₁/Fₙ tends to the golden ratio φ ≈ 1.618 as n increases So Fₙ mi ≈ Fₙ₊₁ km…
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Random walkers illuminate a math problem
2 min read · From 2019 · An intuitive picture solves a family of tricky integrals without explicit calculation.
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Arabic mathematics : forgotten brilliance?
~11 min read · From 2019 · Recent research paints a new picture of the debt that we owe to Arabic/Islamic mathematics. Certainly many of the ideas which were previously thought to have been brilliant new conceptions due to…
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Math’s Beautiful Monsters
10 min read · From 2019 · Much like its creator, Karl Weierstrass’ monster came from nowhere. After four years at university spent drinking and fencing, Weierstrass…
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Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
7 min read · From 2019 · The “sensitivity” conjecture stumped many top computer scientists, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet.
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Visual Information Theory
From 2015 · I love the feeling of having a new way to think about the world. I especially love when there’s some vague idea that gets formalized into a concrete concept. Information theory is a prime example of…
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〈 Berger | Dillon 〉 on Twitter
9 min read · From 2019 · “Throwing an object at the same speed but different angles defines an ellipse via its maximum height https://t.co/vQ8NMssCMf”
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When the Sky Explained Everything
9 min read · From 2019 · Dr. Edwin C. Krupp has spent more than 40 years researching how ancient cultures worshipped and studied the parade of celestial lights—the…
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