Unscheduled Post: The Silver Ratio
John Cook on The Endeavour has just mentioned the wonderful silver ratio. As this is probably my favourite number I can’t resist the chance to put up some pictures. The silver ratio: ,… Continue reading
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Unscheduled Post: Subtlety and swine flu
The difference between stupid and intelligent people–and this is true whether or not they are well-educated–is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations–in fact,… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: Penrose vs Zeilberger
Being able to see the searches people use to arrive at Maxwell’s Demon can be quite amusing. Two hardy souls even managed to come from a search for Mathematics. Just how deep in… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: The British Police
I have always had faith and respect for the British police. That has been, to put it mildly, dented recently.
Unscheduled Post: Hyperbolic Polydron
What happens when you put seven equilateral triangles round a point? Inspired by sumidiot who was himself inspired by division by zero who were making paper hyperbolic soccer balls, I thought I would put… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: Visualising 3D
I cannot resist replying to a post in Cosmic Variance: Why Can’t We Visualize More Than Three Dimensions? The comments section says much of this already, in addition to the wonderful: Your better off… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: No Science without Fancy
A great post from Scott Aaronson on Shtetl-Optimized talking about rational literature, with the wonderful point that in many works that do mention science: the juvenile humor at the core of how science works will… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: Faster than the speed of wind
Terence Tao has a beautiful analysis of sailing, in particular: One of the more unintuitive facts about sailing is that it is possible to harness the power of the wind to sail in a direction against that… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: Don’t keep calm and carry on…
Great flickr meme from Matt Jones making the rounds… it says it all, though the original is not bad.
Unscheduled Post: Gang aft agley
With the DLR post and now this one I am sailing dangerously close to becoming an observational blog. I am going to hide that in a little rambling about blogs. One of the… Continue reading
Unscheduled Post: Poem on the DLR
As I am staying in south east London at the moment, I am finally getting the chance to use the DLR on a regular basis. The DLR has always been romantic to me,… Continue reading
The latest maths carnival…
here. Apologies for the lack of posts recently I hope to resume service soon.