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[stardust-seedling]

It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.“

Henri Poincaré (via stardust-seedling)

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[lthmath]

Math in Nature #6

In the mid-1990s, Kyoto University researchers realized to their surprise that equations originally devised by the mathematical genius Alan Turing predicted that the parallel yellow and purple stripes of the marine angelfish have to move over time. Stable, unmoving patterns didn’t jive with the mathematics. To find out if this was true, the researchers photographed angelfish in an aquarium over several months. Sure enough, an angelfish’s stripes do migrate across its body over time, and in just the way the equations had indicated.

[kookliss]

um excuse me what?

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[xkcds]

Hi, I’m your new meteorologist and a former software developer. Hey, when we say 12pm, does that mean the hour from 12pm to 1pm, or the hour centered on 12pm? Or is it a snapshot at 12:00 exactly? Because our 24-hour forecast has midnight at both ends, and I’m worried we have an off-by-one error.

Meteorologist [Explained]

[curiosamathematica]

By Math with Bad Drawings.

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[myjetpack]

For @newscientist

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[wolframalpha]

Have you found our dancing friends yet? Happy Pi Day!

[lthmath]

There is nothing much we can say… We leave these quotes here to commemorate one of the most inspirational scientists of our times.

[curiosamathematica]

“At any moment there is only a fine layer between the trivial and the impossible. Mathematical discoveries are made in this layer.”

— Andery Kolmogorov

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[mathprofessorquotes]

“There’s no magic in the world. It’s all math.”

— Discrete math professor