(via wundernews)
I’ve shared it here before, but this is the greatest math cheatsheet ever.
Venn Diagram of the Day: Unified Bitch Theory. [via.]
Umm….
#math is the gift that keeps giving. (via naturalnumber)
multiplication using vedic mathematics (via shailyvipul)
OH COME ON. Why’d they go and make multiplication look like a bunch of fun?
— James F. Fixx’s problem-solving rules in Solve it!, a collection of brain-teasers. (via welikesnow, Bons Mots)
hey tristan! i’ll trade you a witch of agnesi for an involute!
Well now, I’m going to spend the rest of my night on Category:Curves on Wikipedia.
He had his own idiosyncratic vocabulary: he spoke of “The Book”, an imaginary book in which God had written down the best and most elegant proofs for mathematical theorems. Lecturing in 1985 he said, “You don’t have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.” He himself doubted the existence of God, whom he called the “Supreme Fascist” (SF). He accused the SF of hiding his socks and Hungarian passports, and of keeping the most elegant mathematical proofs to himself. When he saw a particularly beautiful mathematical proof he would exclaim, “This one’s from The Book!”