…and if you don’t know why that is, you probably haven’t had enough sex (or you don’t read Cosmo). But don’t take my word for it — over at her revamped blog, my friend Laura has written a breakdown of what ‘sex’ would be like if you actually tried to do it the way Cosmo [...]
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Yesterday, I gave a brief overview of rings (as algebraic structures) and promised more later on ‘modules’ and ‘fields’. The results I want to talk about are certainly deeper than the results to do with rings, however much of the terminology will hopefully now be familiar to you, as a great deal of it was [...]
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First — this is just made of win: And as if there were any doubt that maths is beautiful…
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Mmmm…the Navier-Stokes equations… Too abstract for you? Let’s see what happens when you apply them to simulate a fluid explosion…
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Hells yeah — a tesseract!
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The man responsible for this subject…and a metric crapton of other maths: David Hilbert!
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Ladies and Gentlemen, one of the greatest living minds in the world today: Terry Tao.
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When you think of algebra, what do you think of? For most people, I’d wager that things like factorizing polynomials… …the quadratic formula, i.e. the solutions to the equation is given by… …and maybe also the binomial theorem… . Now, there’s no doubt that these formulae find a comfortable home under the label of ‘algebra’ [...]
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Personally, I’d like to believe that such silliness as Creationism has found no place in the Australian education system — unfortunately, I’ve always known that in some places (particularly up north — you know which north I’m talking about) it has weaned its way into the curriculum of various schools. Now we’ve got a first [...]
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Look out, Christians — apparently universities are out to get you! Just take a look at what’s happening in Georgia right now… A counseling student has filed suit against a university in Georgia because she claims the school is forcing her to abandon her Christian beliefs in order to receive a degree. Oh no! I [...]
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