10^6 things I haven't done @mathscara - Tumblr Blog

aromanticduck

Teaching children about fractions: Imagine some yummy cake and pizza :)

Teaching children about negative numbers: Imagine you are freezing cold and in debt.

littlealexhorne

my professor brought this up during lecture today and i was like “ALEX HORNE?”

moonss-and-stars

“Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.”

- Dean Schlicter

hyper-cube

i’ve got another joke about proofs by induction but you won’t get it unless you got the last one

threadedtheorems

This full binary tree branches out over 8 levels 🌿✨, stitched with stem stitch and dotted with French knot leaves. Who knew recursion could look so cute? Template in my blog description if you want to stitch your own!

bakingmoomins

anyway look at the voderberg tile. it's a nonagon (nine sides).

and the only shape that can surround itself completley with only two iterations of itself

and it also creates a spiral tessellation <3

vriskakinnieaynrand

2, 4, 8, 16: powers of two that most people recognize

32, 64, 128, 256: powers of two that the computer-literate recognize

512, 1024, 2048: powers of two that 2048 players recognize

4096—16384: powers of two that people who recognize powers of two recognize

32768, 65536, 16777216: powers of two that professional computer touchers recognize

131072, 262144, 524288, 1048576: powers of two recognized by those who have walked the grounds of the wizard's tower

2097152, 4194304, 8388608: powers of two which advanced thaumaturges may once have espied...

33554432: what

max1461

When I was a kid, I remember being really astounded by the fact that arithmetic is consistent. Like uh, 2 + 3 + 4 is 9. And 9 - 4 is 5, which is 2 + 3, and 9 - 2 is 7, which is 3 + 4! And 7 is also 6 + 1, and guess what, 9 is also 6 + 1 + 2, and even more amazingly, 6 is 4 + 2, and (remember 9 - 4 is 5) 2 + 2 + 1 is 5! No matter what you do it's always consistent, you can't trick it by adding and subtracting some convoluted sequence of numbers until it gives you an answer that's inconsistent with the rest.

When I was first learning arithmetic I remember that I just found this crazy, like, how does it always work out? That shouldn't be possible. And I figured that, naturally, when I got older, someone would eventually give me the answer to this incredibly pressing question. And, well, it turns out nobody has the answer, and they actually proved that it's impossible for anyone to give a satisfying answer. So, that's a bit disappointing.

squareallworthy

Heartbreaking! The obvious letter to use for this variable isn't available because you already used it for something else!

shouldbepersephone

My brother (currently in college shooting for a PhD in maths) sent me this at 2 am and informed me that I should “put it on the tumbler”

Jobius Strip

iwillsurvivecollege

You don't need to prove yourself to anyone. You're not a theorem. You're an axiom.

lothmoth

did you know they say calculus is the language of God. did you know they tried to hold math up to infinity like a candle to the void. did you know statisticians plunged into the vastness of random chance and picked out patterns and equations and eight hundred ways to tell you how big your inevitable errors are and how far off those guesses at errors might be. math haters I can't sit with you anymore. human innovation is cradled in these ancient, methodical, desperate attempts at understanding what we are not designed to understand