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Geometry
Real Number Set Diagram
Beautiful proofs (#4) - When Gauss was a young child...
The legend goes something like this:
Gaussâs teacher wanted to occupy his students by making them add large sets of numbers and told everyone in class to find the sum of 1+2+3+ âŚ. + 100.
And Gauss, who was a young child (age ~ 10) quickly found the sum by just pairing up numbers:
Using this ingenious method used by Gauss allows us to write a generic formula for the sum of first n positive integers as follows:
fractal nature
âa fractal object is an object of which each element is also a fractal objectâ
Greek Alphabet
Î Îą = alpha
Πβ = beta
Πδ = delta
Î Îľ = epsilon
ÎŚ Ď = phi
Î Îł = gamma
ΠΡ = eta
ΠΚ = iota
ΠΞ = ksi
Î Îş = kappa
Î Îť = lambda
Î Îź = mu
Πν = nu
Î Îż = omicron
Î Ď = pi
ÎĄ Ď = rho
ÎŁ Ď = sigma
Τ Ď = tau
Πθ = theta
Ί Ď = omega
Χ Ď = chi
ÎĽ Ď = upsilon
Î Îś = zeta
Ψ Ď = psi
Sphere is circumscribed by a cube and has a smaller cube inscribed within it. What is the ratio of the cube volumes?
The universe is a labyrinth made of labyrinths. Each leads to another. And wherever we cannot go ourselves, we reach with mathematics.
Stanislaw Lem, Fiasco (via eka-mark)
A sample solution in the Lorenz attractor when Ď = 28, Ď = 10, and β = 8/3. Source.Â
In 1847 Oliver Byrne published an edition of Euclid's Elements which replaced text with pictures. Shown here is the statement that âin a right angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the sidesâ.
In 1637, Pierre Fermat, a French lawyer, wrote a conjecture in the margin of an old Greek mathematical book: âIt is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powersâ. The conjecture was finally proved over three centuries later by Andrew Wiles.
Light reflecting off a curved mirror in a smoky room will generally create one of these three shapes, called the âswallowtailâ, the âpyramidâ, and the âpurseâ.
Mathematical Spirals
According to Wikipedia, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a central point, getting progressively farther away as it revolves around the point (similar to helices [plural for helix!] which are three-dimensional). Pictured above are some of the most important spirals of mathematics.
Logarithmic Spiral: Equation: r=ae^bθ. I must admit that these are my favorite! Logarithmic spirals are self-similar, basically meaning that the spiral maintains the same shape even as it grows. There are many examples of approximate logarithmic spirals in nature: the spiral arms of galaxies, the shape of nautilus shells, the approach of an insect to a light source, and more. Additionally, the awesome Mandelbrot set features some logarithmic spirals. Fun fact: the Fibonacci spiral is an approximation of the Golden spiral which is only a special case of the Logarithmic spiral.Â
Fermatâs Spiral: Equation: r= ¹θ^(½). This is a type of Archimedean spiral and is also known as the parabolic spiral. Fermatâs spiral plays a role in disk phyllotaxis (the arrangement of leaves in a plant system).Â
Archimedean Spiral: Equation: r=a+bθ. The Archimedean spiral has the property that the distance between each successive turning of the spiral remains constant. This kind of spiral can have two arms (like in the Fermatâs spiral image), but pictured above is the one-armed version.Â
Hyperbolic Spiral: Equation: r=a/θ. It is also know as the reciprocal spiral and is the opposite of an Archimedian spiral. It begins at an infinite distance from the pole in the center (for θ starting from zero r = a/θ starts from infinity), and it winds faster and faster around as it approaches the pole; the distance from any point to the pole, following the curve, is infinite.Â
Slight variations in tempo and loudness follow fractal patterns
Hyperboloid
Archimedean Polyhedra
Here are the possibilities as to what can appear at a vertex. The notation (3, 4, 3, 4) means each vertex contains a triangle, a square, a triangle, and a square, in that cyclic order.Â
(3, 4, 3, 4) cuboctahedron
(3, 5, 3, 5) icosidodecahedron
(3, 6, 6) truncated tetrahedron
These solids were described by Archimedes, although his original writings on the topic are  lost and only known of second-hand. All but one of these polyhedra were gradually rediscovered during the Renaissance by various artists, and Kepler finally reconstructed the entire set in 1619. A key characteristic of the Archimedean solids is that each face is a regular polygon, and around every vertex, the same polygons appear in the same sequence, e.g., hexagon-hexagon-triangle in the truncated tetrahedron, shown above. Two or more different polygons appear in each of the Archimedean solids, unlike the Platonic solids which each contain only a single type of polygon. The polyhedron is required to be convex.Â
(4, 6, 6) truncated octahedron
 (3, 8, 8) truncated cube
(5, 6, 6) truncated icosahedron
There are 13 solids classified as Archimedean, (not counting two mirror images twice). The snub cube and snub dodecahedron are chiral; they each come in two handednesses (two enantiomorphs, referred to as left-handed and right-handed forms or laevo and dextro forms). To see the enantiomorph of either of the snub figures, view the reflection of your computer screen in a mirror. Or, look at this side-by-side model of a snub cube and its enantiomorph.Â
(3, 10, 10) truncated dodecahedron
(3, 4, 4, 4) rhombicuboctahedron, sometimes called the small rhombicuboctahedron
Although the accepted polyhedron names are less than ideal, there is a certain logic to the names above. (They are adapted from Keplerâs Latin terminology.) The term snub refers to a process of surrounding each polygon with a border of triangles as a way of deriving for example the snub cube from the cube. The term truncated refers to the process of cutting off corners. Compare, for example, the cube and the truncated cube. Truncation adds a new face for each previously existing vertex, and replaces n-sided polygons with 2n-sided ones, e.g., octagons instead of squares. Â
There is also another class of polyhedra in which the same regular polygons appear at each vertex: the prisms and antiprisms, which have vertex types (4, 4, n) and (3, 3, 3, n) respectively. But as these form two infinite series, they can not be all listed, and so are described as a separate group. (Georgehart.com/Polyhedra/Archimedean)
(4, 6, 8) truncated cuboctahedron, sometimes called the great rhombicuboctahedron
(3, 4, 5, 4) rhombicosidodecahedron, sometimes called the small rhombicosidodecahedron
(4, 6, 10) truncated icosidodecahedron, sometimes called the great rhombicosidodecahedron
(3, 3, 3, 3, 4) snub cube, better called the snub cuboctahedron
(3, 3, 3, 3, 5) snub dodecahedron, better called the snub icosidodecahedron
GIFs: Created by Philipp Legner at World.mathigon.org/Polygons.and.Polyhedra
Hampering our ability to design general AI is the embarrassing fact that we donât understand what we mean by âintelligence.â This lack of knowledge makes any predictions of when we will achieve strong AI fraught with uncertainty. Still, it may not be so far away. For the record, most experts believe that strong machine intelligence will arrive before the century is over, assuming current trends continue.
Will Artificial Intelligence Surpass Our Own? - Scientific American (via wildcat2030)