tag:xyzzyb.com,2008:mephisto/math Mephisto Noh-Varr 2008-05-25T14:34:16Z stephen tag:xyzzyb.com,2008-04-09:351 2008-04-09T20:08:00Z 2008-05-25T14:34:16Z <p>I am so going to be all over this in a few years: <a href="http://csunplugged.com/index.php/activities.html">teach children Computer Science without a computer</a></p> stephen tag:xyzzyb.com,2008-03-20:336 2008-03-20T16:18:00Z 2008-05-25T14:28:51Z <p><a href="http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,19409.0.html">Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About A4 Paper: A Math Comic</a></p> stephen tag:xyzzyb.com,2008-03-14:331 2008-03-14T03:49:00Z 2008-05-25T14:28:08Z <p><a href="http://balltech.blogspot.com/2008/03/is-91-prime.html">Is 91 prime?</a></p> stephen tag:xyzzyb.com,2008-03-11:330 2008-03-11T22:11:00Z 2008-05-25T14:27:42Z <p><a href="http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=987">Calculus in Donkey Kong</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Mario’s jump moves are derived from basic physics of motion, and the calculus-based equations are in the source, nicely formatted</p> </blockquote> stephen tag:xyzzyb.com,2007-12-21:134 2007-12-21T16:54:00Z 2008-05-25T00:39:46Z <p>Even <a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/21/1613227">geeks go to a crazy place</a> when the discussion turns to the <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news117283969.html">mathematics of traffic jams</a>. Here’s a <a href="http://www.amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html">nicely animated explanation of how traffic patterns <strong>should</strong> work</a></p> stephen tag:xyzzyb.com,2007-11-15:90 2007-11-15T16:06:00Z 2008-05-24T16:32:25Z <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/11/14/scisurf114.xml&CMP=ILC-mostviewedbox">surfer/physicist Garrett Lisi comes up with a unified theory of everything</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E8_%28mathematics%29">E₈</a></li> </ul> stephen tag:xyzzyb.com,2007-11-06:83 2007-11-06T19:50:00Z 2008-05-24T16:29:59Z <p><a href="http://www.city-data.com/top2/toplists2.html">Tons of graphed and google mapped data on US cities</a>. Colorado is a hotbed of conflicting politics.</p> stephen tag:xyzzyb.com,2007-11-02:78 2007-11-02T15:46:00Z 2008-05-24T16:28:44Z <p>When graphed a certain way, there are remarkable patterns within the sequence of prime numbers.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral">Wikipedia:Ulam spiral</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://mgccl.com/2007/05/07/the-most-optimal-php-prime-spiral-generator-yet">Implemented in <span class="caps">PHP</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacks_spiral">Wikipedia:Sacks spiral</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://naturalnumbers.org/sparticle.html">Natural Numbers:The Sacks Number Spiral</a></li> <li><a href="http://numberspiral.com/">NumberSpiral.com</a></li> </ul></li> </ul>