See tagged statuses in the local Rambling Readers community
I'm trying to come up with "math-y pilgrimage sites" to visit.
For example, the bridge in Dublin where Hamilton wrote the equations for the quaternions.
Or the estate where Newton wrote the Principia.
Or, to include a more literal religious angle: the Boole window in the Lincoln Cathedral.
What are some places that you think math and computing nerds should visit?
TikTok #drag queen explores the creativity and beauty of #math
« Kyne Santos was a student at the University of #Waterloo when she began her math career – and her drag career.
You may know Kyne from the first season of Canada's Drag Race or from TikTok.
She makes educational videos about math, science, history and drag under the username @onlinekyne. »
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/07/1198910152/math-drag-queen-kyne-santos-tiktok
The elliptic integrals show up in all sorts of situations in #physics, and are a good example of the necessary of numerical approximation to obtain answers. Elliptic integrals are a particular class of the so-called "special functions"—the relatively obscure functions which typically arise as solutions to differential equations and which do not have a closed-form expression. #blog #math https://devyn.ca/blog/elliptic-integrals/
Why are algorithms called algorithms? A brief history of the Persian polymath you've likely never heard of
#algorithms #math #Science #Scicomm
There's a teddy bear handing out maths problems in the West End of Glasgow!
Flow field image #rtistry #mathart #art #math #GenerativeArt
⭕️Celebrate Pi Day with a Slice of Science⭕️
What better way to honour this mathematical marvel (π) than by baking a delicious pie that resembles the CMS detector? 🥧
Today, embrace the magic of circles – from pizzas and pancakes to clocks and planets. 🪐🍕
Take a moment to appreciate the beauty and wonder of math in our everyday world.
#PiDay #PiDay2024 #CERN #CMSExperiment #science #scientists #ScienceMastodon #math #maths
In the jianghu, you break the law to make it your own.
Lin Chong is …
Lu Da's staff weights "60 jin". A Jin is a little more than a US pound, so it's about 54.5 pounds. Which seems heavy as fuck for a staff.
A modern Chinese Gun (Staff) is six feet long and an unspecified on Wikipedia thickness. At an inch thick, a six foot oak staff would be like, 2 pounds. Even an inch thick staff of pure lead (the most common "really heavy, yet fashionable" thing I can think of,) would only be 23 pounds.
Now, given this is wuxia, so fantasy, and I don't know what kinds of metals were available during the Song dynasty, it could be something fantastic rather than real, but were it real, it might be an inch and a half lead core with a quarter inch of iron around that for support.
That is fucking big.
NASA Unveils Design for Message Heading to Jupiter’s Moon Europa
The moon shows strong evidence of an ocean under its icy crust, with more than twice the amount of water of all of Earth’s oceans combined. A triangular metal plate on the spacecraft will honor that connection to Earth in several ways.
#EuropaClipper #Europa #spacecraft #europaclippermission #Jupiter #moon #ocean #earth #space #astrodon #science #technology #education #art #math #STEM #water #lire #nasa
The decimal point is 150 years older than previously thought, medieval manuscript reveals.
@Smithsonianmag reports: "A Venetian merchant used the mathematical symbol while calculating the positions of planets between 1441 and 1450."
