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The Work of John Milnor
Layman-targeted speech on Milnor's winning the Abel prize
math  abel  milnor  pdf 
march 2011 by maciej
The Two-Envelope Paradox: A Complete Analysis?
explains why there cannot be a uniform distribution over an infinite set
math  probability  paradox 
august 2007 by maciej
Minus Zero
amusing UNIVAC design quirk
math  cs  univac  hist 
june 2007 by maciej
Hawking Radiation
something other than the usual virtual particle pair at event horizon explanation
math  hawking  black  hole  cosmology  thermodynamics 
february 2007 by maciej
The n-Category Café
neat new math/physics/philosophy blog by John Baez and friends
philo  math  blog  physics 
october 2006 by maciej
James Tauber : Poincaré Project
attempt at a plain English explanation of the conjecture and its proof
poincare  math  popularization  blog  cool 
september 2006 by maciej
Dialetheism - logical systems that allow contradiction
an underexplored way around all those nasty paradoxes
philosophy  logic  math  paradox  godel  russell  formal 
july 2006 by maciej
Video Animations - n-body problem
pretty math animations, including giant buckyball with symmetry sauce
math  gravity  physics  sim  visualization  cool 
june 2006 by maciej
The Quantum Gravity Seminar
rich meaty source material in mathematical physics
math  physics  reference  quantum 
june 2006 by maciej
Dictionary Eodermdromes
weird colission of word wankery with graph theory. "The 45-letter word PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOKONIOSIS has been omitted from the eodermdrome analysis"
words  etym  geek  math  obsess  graph  theory  en 
may 2006 by maciej
American Scientist Online - Gauss's Day of Reckoning
great article by mathematician who tries to find the origins of the young Gauss series-summing anecdote
gauss  math  obsess  folklore 
april 2006 by maciej
Edwin T. Jaynes - Bibliography
papers on statistical mechanics and information theory that I'm told are good reading
physics  reference  biblio  statistics  math  toread 
april 2006 by maciej
Math Projects
interesting list of math challenged binned by time required
math  list 
march 2006 by maciej
The Meaning of Einstein's Equation
lovely intro to general relativity based on a geometrical interpretation; no tensor calculus required
relativity  einstein  physics  tutorial  reference  math  cosmology 
november 2005 by maciej
The Graphing Calculator Story
amusing exercise in organizational psychology
apple  software  development  math  security  ha 
october 2005 by maciej
Rinus Roelofs - Rhinoceros
intricate mathematical Möbius and knot-like sculptures and drawings
art  math  drawing  sculpture  gallery 
august 2005 by maciej
The Sagnac Effect (measuring absolute rotation by the difference in time light takes to complete a closed loop in opposing directions)
includes a good discussion and rebuttal of the misuse of the Sagnac effect in supposed refutations of special relativity
science  physics  math  crank 
july 2005 by maciej
Orbital Mechanics
primer on orbital mechanics
physics  space  math  tutorial 
july 2005 by maciej
Crank Dot Net
great clearinghouse of online cranks, rated by crankiness, with short rant excerpts
crank  physics  math  obsess  ha 
july 2005 by maciej
The Coriolis Force
explained quite rigorously
physics  weather  math 
july 2005 by maciej
Number of Engines - Design Criteria Relation to Reliability and Other Factors
spreadsheet for probabilistic risk assessment of changes to shuttle booster configuration
shuttle  nasa  math  risk  space 
july 2005 by maciej
Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All
amusing rant on misuse of statistics in programming
rant  cs  math 
june 2005 by maciej
Pure Mathematics - Franklin
list of highly interesting articles by author of Renaissance rant posted earlier
cool  math  philo  hist 
march 2005 by maciej
MathWorld News: Arbitrarily Long Progressions of Primes
arithmetic progressions of primes of length k exists for all k
math 
march 2005 by maciej
Busy Beaver function
a discussion of the current recordholders, remarkably akin to gene expression
math  cool 
february 2005 by maciej
Large Numbers at MROB
some very very very large numbers
math  cool 
february 2005 by maciej
The Poppy-Seed Bagel Theorem
How to spread seeds as evenly as possible on a torus
math 
february 2005 by maciej
Pulchritudinous primes - Visualizing the distribution of prime numbers...
Visualizations of prime number distribution in 2D and 3D... and don't miss "Prime Island"
math  ha  cool 
february 2005 by maciej
folding and links: robot arms
discussion of folding and unwrapping hinged segments
bio  math 
october 2004 by maciej
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