nobrow cartoon
http://www.nobrowcartoons.com/ by Mark Heath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
http://www.nobrowcartoons.com/ by Mark Heath
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
Please note that smoking (and duelling) can damage your health.
One of maths more tragic stories.
Seen at http://aperiodical.com/2012/10/happy-birthday-evariste-galois/
…researchers have provided a mathematical formula to describe the processes that dictate how cauliflower-like patterns – a type of fractal pattern – form and develop.
He’s not in the honors program. His papers, one teacher says, are a mess. In a school where the best and brightest are well dressed, he wears tatty running shoes, jeans, and a brightly colored T-shirt. But Rob Stringer, a high school geometry student in this upscale Boston suburb, has come up with something unknown since Euclid first discovered geometry. With the aid of a computer program developed by researchers at the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, he has hit upon a previously unknown geometrical theorem for dividing a triangle into smaller triangles of equal size.
https://sites.google.com/site/geogebrainstituteofiowa/-stringer-s-conjecture
It’s Martin Gardner’s birthday on 21st October and there is to be a hexaflexagon party as advertised in this video by Vi Hart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paQ10POrZh8&feature=youtu.be
Yesterday visited Traquair House near Innerleithen. They have a set of Napier’s Bones on display. The above set of calculating aids may have been used by JN himself according to a note in the display case.
Wolfram.com on Napier’s Bones
Wikipedia on Napier’s Bones
Nrich on Napier’s Bones
Also on display was this abacus
another kind of resonance following on from yesterday’s metronomes
rupert sheldrake doesn’t really explain how the rats pick up on the what other rats have learned in the present not to my mind anyway but really fascinating all the same