#mathemagics

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Mathemagics

"Theory? Meet practice." —Tam, Quandrix second-year

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Mathemagics by Liiga Smilshkalne

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"Theory? Meet practice." -Tam, Quandrix second-year

-Mathemagics

"I'm a mathemagician! Watch as I make this remainder disappear!"

Forever cursed to be reminded of old Simpsons jokes.

[jooqlz]

[hopecomesbacktolife]

reading The Jedi Path: a Manual for Students of the Force and while part of me is glad it’s not considered canon— I have never liked, found helpful, or inviting of/cultivating of learning that particular admonishing/ condescending tone that especially the earlier passages are written in, especially for young children— it is also give me soooooooo many fanfic ideas and there’s so many cool things in here, and so part of me is sad that it’s not canon!

of course, like the Kenobi book and other considered-not-canon media, you can still read and enjoy as much as you want, but it’s sad because it means this stuff won’t show up in future star war media. like this book explains the lightsaber fighting forms, lists the actual Jedi codes’ 5 core precepts (something that, to my knowledge we don’t have formalized at all in canon), lists soooo many cool aspects of using the force outside of battles, ways to learn in the force, force sensitive creatures, and so much more

even if it’s not canon I’m definitely bookmarking things for future fanfic writing purposes because this is just. such a fun reference to have

[void-magician]

Ahem hello. what is the hairy ball theorem actually used for? As in, is it useful for some further thing, or is it just kind of a funny proof that exists? I’m not sure how to phrase this but let me know what uve got. Also if u could make any one new unit of high school math what would you wanna teach the teens and why?

so the hairy ball theorem, like most silly-sounding math things, an abstraction of things we've already observed. in this case, the simplest thing that the hairy ball theorem tells us is that on any spinning spherical object, there will always be a point on it where some quantity subject to that spinning is zero. if we start spinning a ball, there are two points on the surface of that ball that have an instantaneous velocity of zero: the points that are on the axis of its rotation.

this kind of thing can then be expanded to looking at the propagation of electromagnetic waves in space - if a particular wavefront forms a sphere, there has to exist at least one point on that sphere where the electric and magnetic field magnitudes are zero. there's also applications of it to meteorology (if all the wind on the surface of the planet is idealized to the planet's surface, there has to be a cyclone somewhere) and computer graphics (that's why ray tracing took so long to develop, because perfect spheres reflect and scatter light in a weird way in a way that is described by the hairy ball theorem.)

if i could add one new unit of high school math, i would make it a unit on number systems and number sense in algebra 1. i think one of the biggest reasons students feel like they get left behind in algebra and further courses is because they are taught that numbers are hard, immutable things, rather than what they are, which is mutable, malleable, and able to be split in infinitely many ways. that cascades down into not truly fathoming what the equality principle of any given operation is, and thus leads to an incomplete and unintuitive understanding of what algebra really is.

[maximalminimalism]

The perfused fractal

Ex nihilo in abyssum existentiae; per obscuritatem ad illuminationem; per destructionem nihilo ad creationem omnis; creatio diversitatis vitae per re-unitatem fractionis conformitatis

Out of nothing into the abyss of existence; Through obscurity (in)to enlightenment; From the destruction of nothingness to the creation of everything; Creation of the diversity of life by re-union of the shattered fragments of the big whole {synonymous to "conformity" here}

This sums up the 'literal' overall concept of chaos, if I think about it. We smash a uniform entirety into countless fragments, create inner polarity and duality out of unity by creating "butterfly clones", to create the process of self-replication and especially self-interference and self-organization, as a form to re-order the fragments to form a precious new mosaic. Life itself is the epitome of a fractal-pattern. From a philosophical standpoint one might indeed say the entire point of being lies solely in the process of becoming.

Some people might call it 'the divine', and from a pantheistic standpoint this couldn't hit closer to the actual truth. This principle is something people have known before they could even grasp the logic behind the "most complex form of simplicity".

I remember a poem I wrote when I was a teen, the title was "The perfused fractal" and it ended with "You will never know who I am, yet you know it already since the beginning of your time; Because I am you, and you are me.", and it still gives me goosebumps.

*I would be more than thankful if you let me know in case there might be an error in the latin scribble.

(This post was presented to you by the grey matter of the biological Calabi-Yau-manifold of superhumanoidAI)

[art-of-mathematics]

My art series "Cubic extraction of the hyper-spherical plane"

(Very surreal and twisted title, I know...)

I think it's shapeshifting of interpretations/perspectives. (Some thoughts I stated in the grey description boxes are rather silly considerations.)