The Work of John Milnor
march 2011 by maciej
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?
august 2007 by maciej
explains why there cannot be a uniform distribution over an infinite set
math
probability
paradox
august 2007 by maciej
Hawking Radiation
february 2007 by maciej
something other than the usual virtual particle pair at event horizon explanation
math
hawking
black
hole
cosmology
thermodynamics
february 2007 by maciej
Google Groups : comp.security.misc on the SecurID two-factor authentication thing from RSA
december 2006 by maciej
lots of interesting details on the implementation
rsa
crypto
security
securid
discuss
math
december 2006 by maciej
The n-Category Café
october 2006 by maciej
neat new math/physics/philosophy blog by John Baez and friends
philo
math
blog
physics
october 2006 by maciej
Wavelet Tutorial for Engineers
october 2006 by maciej
mmm... wavelets
wavelet
math
howto
tutorial
reference
physics
algo
october 2006 by maciej
James Tauber : Poincaré Project
september 2006 by maciej
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
july 2006 by maciej
an underexplored way around all those nasty paradoxes
philosophy
logic
math
paradox
godel
russell
formal
july 2006 by maciej
Video Animations - n-body problem
june 2006 by maciej
pretty math animations, including giant buckyball with symmetry sauce
math
gravity
physics
sim
visualization
cool
june 2006 by maciej
American Scientist Online - Gauss's Day of Reckoning
april 2006 by maciej
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
april 2006 by maciej
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
march 2006 by maciej
interesting list of math challenged binned by time required
math
list
march 2006 by maciej
This week in mathematical physics
november 2005 by maciej
great newsletter
math
physics
newsletter
cool
november 2005 by maciej
General Relativity Course Outline
november 2005 by maciej
general relativity made e-z
tutorial
gravity
einstein
physics
reference
math
november 2005 by maciej
The Meaning of Einstein's Equation
november 2005 by maciej
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
Principia Mathematica: Whitehead and Russell
november 2005 by maciej
background on the creation of the book
math
philo
doh
logic
november 2005 by maciej
The Graphing Calculator Story
october 2005 by maciej
amusing exercise in organizational psychology
apple
software
development
math
security
ha
october 2005 by maciej
How to ask meaningful questions about math presentations you fail to understand
october 2005 by maciej
I can easily imagine analogous howtos for other fields
math
ha
october 2005 by maciej
Rinus Roelofs - Rhinoceros
august 2005 by maciej
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)
july 2005 by maciej
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
Pure Mathematics - Franklin
march 2005 by maciej
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
march 2005 by maciej
arithmetic progressions of primes of length k exists for all k
math
march 2005 by maciej
Busy Beaver function
february 2005 by maciej
a discussion of the current recordholders, remarkably akin to gene expression
math
cool
february 2005 by maciej
The Poppy-Seed Bagel Theorem
february 2005 by maciej
How to spread seeds as evenly as possible on a torus
math
february 2005 by maciej
Pulchritudinous primes - Visualizing the distribution of prime numbers...
february 2005 by maciej
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
october 2004 by maciej
discussion of folding and unwrapping hinged segments
bio
math
october 2004 by maciej
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