Pinboard: bookmarks for mikelynch tagged 'mathematics'

Argues that some of the scenes in Wonderland are satires of particular aspects of modern analysis to which Dodgson objected. Bit of a stretch, but I'll bookmark anything with references to De Morgan and Hamilton.

mathematics history lewiscarroll nonsense children literature uk 19thcentury
december 2009 by mikelynch

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Why Your Friends Have More Friends Than You Do

Also, why your lover has had more lovers than you, etc

mathematics graph relationships cool
december 2009 by mikelynch

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Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

Am I the only one who finds these horrific?

fractal the90sneverended mathematics horror art visualisation via:ethan_t_hein
november 2009 by mikelynch

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The Higher Arithmetic » American Scientist
mathematics computer scale
november 2009 by mikelynch

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Voronoi/Delaunay Applet
voronoi geometry mathematics web toys
september 2009 by mikelynch

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sevensixfive: How to: Draw the Voronoi Diagram
drawing geometry mathematics design inspiration voronoi
september 2009 by mikelynch

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Treatment of Alan Turing was “appalling” - PM
history uk mathematics glbt turing war computer
september 2009 by mikelynch

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The Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
sydney events mathematics craft cool science
august 2009 by mikelynch

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YouTube - The Polynomial HD test 2 (game video).

Oh hell yeah

video games fun mathematics music debussy
june 2009 by mikelynch

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Nicolas Bourbaki
mathematics france 20thcentury history collaboration wikipedia writing knowledge
june 2009 by mikelynch

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Slide-Together Geometric Constructions
geometry art craft design howto mathematics cool nerd
june 2009 by mikelynch

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LOGICOMIX

"Covering a span of sixty years, the graphic novel Logicomix was inspired by the epic story of the quest for the Foundations of Mathematics." Starring Bertrand Russell. I hope it includes the sex and drugs.

mathematics logic philosophy 20thcentury comics
april 2009 by mikelynch

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Odd numbers not of the form p + 2*k^2, k>0, p prime.

1, 3, 17, 137, 227, 977, 1187, 1493, 5777, 5993. "This sequence is probably finite [...] the next term, if it exists, is larger than 2e13"

mathematics primes
march 2009 by mikelynch

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Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
finance economics mathematics crash
february 2009 by mikelynch

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A sestina which explains how to construct a sestina in the language of finite group theory.

Righteous!

nerd cool poetry mathematics sestina pdf
january 2009 by mikelynch

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Paul Wilmott's Blog: Magicians And Mathematicians

There is a big wallop of rhetorical sleight-of-hand in this post, but it makes an interesting point

psychology finance mathematics crash risk
december 2008 by mikelynch

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Code: Flickr Developer Blog » The Shape of Alpha
visualisation flickr social software programming mathematics shape
november 2008 by mikelynch

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The Case of M. S. El Naschie | The n-Category Café
mathematics physics kook publishing
november 2008 by mikelynch

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Project Euler - problems
puzzles b_daily programming mathematics
october 2008 by mikelynch

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Project Euler

Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve most problems.

mathematics puzzles programming geek
october 2008 by mikelynch

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