Heliocentrism is Hot

Carry on my wayward Sun

[humanoidhistory]

1973 NASA art by Rick Guidice shows a Pioneer probe using the gravity of Jupiter to slingshot its way to the outer planets.

[warandpeaceandemails]

"war and peace is boring" bro in the first 50 pages pierre gets banished from petersburg because he tied a cop to a bear and threw them both in the river

[trewneollyn]

[invaderxan]

[transarsonist]

[ashipwreckcoast]

[lthmath]

[mapsontheweb]

High-resolution photo of the Sun.

“Each of the ‘cells’ on the surface of the sun are roughly the size of Texas [pictured for scale]. The resolution of DKIST is about 18.5 miles.” MIT Technology Review

[theweatherlab]

[trulyvincent]

Cecropia Moth

[nailpit]

I just found this hour long video about Leibniz and, in doing so, discovered the one thing my life has been missing all this time.

[rattleroze]

You thought I wasn’t going to continue my streak of stupid MTL related merch? You were wrong

You know that one extra where Pickles is fucked up and spends 8 minutes ordering french fries from room service? This is that extra.

Find it here

EDIT: Now also comes in white text!

[mathememetician]

[pencilbrony]

[max-thebrownhairlesbian]

me: *getting ready to sleep*

the demons in my head: cat.(ding ) I’m a kitty cat. and I dance dance dance.

me: what year am I in

[shadowdragonia]

[lthmath]

The Fundamental Anagram of Calculus

Here’s an interesting quote from the correspondence of Isaac Newton:

This is from the 2nd letter that Newton wrote to Leibniz (via Oldenburg) in 1677. He was responding to some questions from Leibniz about his method of infinite series and came close to revealing his “fluxional method” (i.e., calculus), but then decided to conceal it in the form of an anagram. After describing his methods of tangents and handling maxima and minima, he wrote: 

The foundations of these operations is evident enough, in fact; but because I cannot proceed with the explanation of it now, I have preferred to conceal it thus: 6accdae13eff7i3l9n4o4qrr4s8t12ux. On this foundation I have also tried to simplify the theories which concern the squaring of curves, and I have arrived at certain general Theorems.

[walterwhitemediocrity]

[lthmath]

Known simply as M77232917, the figure is arrived at by calculating two to the power of 77,232,917 and subtracting one, leaving a gargantuan string of 23,249,425 digits. The result is nearly one million digits longer than the previous record holder discovered in January 2016.

#primenumber #number #mathgeek #math #excited

[mathprofessorquotes]

It’s called an F distribution, standing for ‘fuck, it’s another distribution.‘

Statistics professor (via mathprofessorquotes)