#maths is cool

[kiila-hdg]

Math is sick, it's so cool.

Like yes absolutely I want to learn about higher dimensions and also which numbers are happy.

I've always loved abstract concepts, others seemed confused and I liked to try and help cause I actually felt more comfortable with the abstract ideas than most of reality.

Sometimes I think I just think abstractly or something.

[framed-sunshine]

Untitled poem II

I admire the complexities of your soul like numbers in an equation,

Woven between letters and symbols and decades of practiced arithmetic

Spelling out secrets in a language im so desperate to understand,

Chalk dust spilling out from your lungs into my eyes,

But I never quite got algebra back in highschool anyway so I blink and laugh along

Losing myself in the indices and division, Forever forgetting to carry the one.

Your world is foreign to me.

[greencarnation]

might get cancelled for saying this on tumblr.com around all these literature nerds but maths is actually so fucking cool??? like it clicks together so intricately and it stays the same and it doesn't change. when nobody else's got me maths has always got me fr

[revetahw]

this week at uni we learnt that 1+1 does not actually = 2 when considering decibels and i don’t think i’ve had my brain shatter into so many pieces before

[kitsunekagesblog]

1 = 0. 9.

So 1 equals 0.9. recurring and this is why. Fraction form: 1 ÷ 3 = 1/3 1/3 × 3 = 3/3 or 1 Decimal form: 1 ÷ 3 = 0.3. 3× 0.3. = 0.9. 1=0.9. Hope that was interesting :-)

[nymph1e]

My activity graph looks like damped harmonic motion and it is awesome and mathematical.

[schrodingersmath]

Mathematician of the month: Evariste Galois

After a lengthy essay from my friend, this month’s mathematician is Evariste Galois (GAL - wah). 

Galois was born on the 25th of October, 1811. He first took the entrance exam for highly prestigious École Polytechnique in 1828 despite a lack of normal preparation; he failed due to a lack of explanations for his work in the oral exam. In the same year, he entered the far inferior École Normale, where some of the teachers were more sympathetic. 

In 1829, Galois’s father committed suicide, and days later Galois took his second (and final) entrance exam for the École Polytechnique. Again, he didn’t get in - however the reasons for this are disputable. Allegedly he made too jumps between his explanations, which confused the incompetent examiner, and infuriated Galois. In 1830, Galois and his fellow students were locked in the school by its director to prevent their participation in the historic les Trois Glorieuses. Galois wrote a scathing, critical letter to the Gazette des Écoles, and although his name was ommitted, he was then expelled. 

Galois grew up in a era of political turmoil, and ended up in a military branch deemed so generally offensive that it was a criminal offense to be wearing their uniform. At one point Galois himself was arrested and charged with 6 months in prison for illegal wearing of it. 9 and a half months later and he was released. 

Galois died on the 30th May, 1832, in a duel with Pescheux d’Herbinville. Despite speculation, it’s unclear as to the cause of the duel. It’s unlikely we will ever know...

'je regrette nothing'