A rabbi, a priest and an automorphism…
I found this Brown Sharpie comic entertaining: Check out more of Courtney Gibbons comic at brownsharpie.courtneygibbons.org
Google results based on number of o’s
Over on the xkcd forums there was a post about the number of google results for the word google with a varying number of “o’s”. Such as:ggglegogglegooglegooogle…goooooo *125 o’s in total* oooogle The data yoteango collected is as follows: O’s Search Results —————————-0 105,0001 1,500,0002 2,020,000,0003 342,0004 666,0005 …
Advice about sex from mathies
The following page has been making the internet rounds. It’s titled sex advice from mathematicians. Here is one such quote from the page: “What’s the best way to pick up a mathematician? It depends on the mathematician. As you would expect, mathematicians vary across the full spectrum of personalities. The stereotypical mathematician is shy, so …
i beat stumbleupon in math
So today I beat stumbleupon in math!! Check out the proof here: MathFail = 1; StumbleUpon = 0.Me thinks I deserve a medal ^_^
Look around you maths
This British comedy show is hilarious. It’s called “Look Around You” and the second epsidoe is about “Maths”. Check it out on youtube (at least for now): Quote from the show (but you really have to watch it to put it in perspective!!): “Narrator: What’s the largest number you can think of ? Person 1: …
The mathematics of sudoku
Tom Davis has a great article on the mathematics of sudoku. He first describes a brief history of the puzzle and how to play. Then he discusses why it is mathematically interesting (it is, trust me!). He goes through some obvious strategies that a lot of people try when doing sudoku and some other clever …
Math cheat sheets
People love to cheat at math for some reason (laziness? lack of understanding? failure to get help?)… anyways, here are some math cheat sheets you can use from different websites: The first one is about algebra, it has 23 pages filled with formulas: Algebra Notes The next one is much shorter about algebra again (4 …
Math fails in history
Dick Lipton wrote a great post over at Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP. In his Sept 27th post he talked about surprises in mathematics. In one of his sections he gives three examples of where mathematicians “accepted” a false proof. Sometimes this happens and it might be dozens of years until someone realizes a mistake …
Another Spiked Math comic
Today’s spiked math comic isn’t too shabby (idea by ma bro): As a mathematician, assumptions are things that come natural to us 😀