1 month ago
wearehugh : Solution to XKCD Velociraptors Problem #2
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gleuschk : Mathematical Miniatures, by Beno Eckmann - I especially like the first one about the birth of arrows
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3 month ago
gleuschk : Algebraic Surfaces Gallery - I love this page
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3 month ago
gleuschk : Sciencedebate 2008 - Barack Obama's answers to the top 14 science questions facing America (McCain hasn't answered yet)
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5 month ago
gleuschk : Home | Open Problem Garden - a collection of unsolved mathematics problems. none in algebra.
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wearehugh : Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Sierpinski Cookies
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6 month ago
gleuschk : Math protest on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - reminds me of my "Algebra not War" sign from the SF protests in 2003
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6 month ago
gleuschk : Ian Gowen - The Great Pi Day Protest of 2008 - I've had this saved up in Google Reader for three months
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7 month ago
philgyford : Amazon.co.uk: "physics for beginners, and the maths that goes with it" - Problem: How do I find time to learn stuff like this when I need to know stuff like this before I can expand time enough so I have time to learn it?
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7 month ago
gleuschk : Brown Sharpie: characteristic pea - cute!
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gleuschk : Old Ph.D. Qualifying Exams by State - a nice list, not too long to be useful
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gleuschk : Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone [PDF] - Baez and Stay
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gleuschk : Leray in Edelbach - shockingly long and interesting article about the mathematical work of Jean Leray in a POW camp in Austria, 1940-45
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gleuschk : Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, LA - Jan. 5-8, 2007 Art Exhibit - featuring some acquaintances and friends. via popular delicious(!)
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10 month ago
gleuschk : Math Trek: Small Infinity, Big Infinity, Science News Online, Jan. 12, 2008 - includes a game-theoretic proof of Cantor's theorem that the cardinality of the integers is strictly less than that of the reals. Neato! (And he's a friend of Anurag's, which is groovy.)
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gleuschk : Women Mathematicians in the Academic Ranks: A Call to Action (PDF) - Report of the BIRS workshop on Women in Mathematics
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11 month ago
gleuschk : Knuth 3:16 - a commemoration of one of the great computer scientists of ancient times, Donald Ervin Knuth.
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gleuschk : The trouble with five - nice article about tilings
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12 month ago
gleuschk : A Neighborhood of Infinity: What's all this E8 stuff about then? Part 1. - parts 2 and 3 are also excellent. this first part has the best explanation of Lie groups and algebras for laymen that I've seen
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12 month ago
gleuschk : gömböc - the first known convex, homogeneous shape having just one stable and one unstable point (i.e. altogether two points) of equilibrium.
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gleuschk : Set Theory: Should You Believe? - fantastic rant
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13 month ago
gleuschk : Backreaction: A Theoretically Simple Exception of Everything - the comment thread features a fascinating conversation with Garrett Lisi (surfer dude with the Theory of Everything Based on E8) and remarkably little ranting from cranks
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13 month ago
gleuschk : Outside In - still just 35 kinds of awesome. Go Smale!
Milo Vermeulen : Google Video - How to turn a sphere inside-out [via]
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14 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : commentary on Wolfram's A New Kind of Science - (via science.slashdot) [via]
gleuschk : The Bactra Review: Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science - crushing
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14 month ago
nelson : Wolfram's huge ego - 20 year old student proves a 2,3 Turing machine is universal; Wolfram's blog post uses the word "I" 2,3 times in each sentence
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