March 2013
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Hi everyone! Faithful followers who have stuck around after a few postless years: thank you and good for you!
For the record, I am not planning on reviving this blog as a math meme thing. I might use it to post fun math things, who knows, though some of that does still make its way onto my personal blog. I still love math! A lot! More than ever, really: I made this blog when I was in my first...
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Actual Definitions of Commonly Confused...
motherfunctions:
quantumaniac:
CLEARLY: I don’t want to write down all the in-between steps.
TRIVIAL: If I have to show you how to do this, you’re in the wrong class.
OBVIOUSLY: I hope you weren’t sleeping when we discussed this earlier, because I refuse to repeat it.
RECALL: I shouldn’t have to tell you this, but for those of you who erase your memory tapes after every test, here it is...
He looked me in the eyes, got down on one knee,...
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mathandcello asked: Sorry there is no video of my interpretive dance. I have all the moves down still so I might try to do a repeat performance in my living room.
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“[…] Mathematics is buried deep in the very fabric of who we are. It is an...”
– from The Mathematical Traveler by Calvin C. Clawson
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Anonymous asked: On behalf of my fiancee and I (who met through this blog), I thank you :)
--pretty sure you can guess who this is LOL--
--pretty sure you can guess who this is LOL--
math jokes?
OK so my school’s Mathematic Sciences Society is in search of this year’s t-shirt design- something funny and math-y, naturally. any awesome ideas?
September 2011
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Anonymous asked: Been back at school for 3 weeks here in the U.K. I seem to be the only person in my A-level Further Mathematics course who is actually enjoying the statistics parts. I don't understand why.
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Anonymous asked: Hello? Is this thing on? Back to school!
sierpinski carpets, on sale for 11.1% off
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rusesymbiotic asked: So I'm trolling through your entire blog and it seems like I'm reposting / liking everything ever. Thank you so much for the wonderful memes! I can't wait to show all my fellow math majors :)
August 2011
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July 2011
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thanks thanks thanks for all the messages :')
been really busy/rarely home lately so I can’t get to them now, but I will soon! I promise! keep being awesome :)
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LaTeX!
quantummodulus:
I’ve spoken to a couple of people here about using LaTeX as a means through which one can convey scientific documents in a very attractive and professional typeset. You may have even seen some of what I work with written in LaTeX typeset, on my blog. It’s likely the most widely used form of publishing scientific and mathematical papers today, and if you’re interested in pursuing...
June 2011
6 posts
We put the "fun" in "function!": A Math Romance →
fyeahmathpuns:
They integrated from the very point of origin. Her curves were continuous, and even though he was odd, he was a real number. The day their lines first intersected, they became an ordered pair. From then on it was a continuous function. They were both in their prime, so in next to no time they were horizontal and parallel. She was awed by the magnitude of his perpendicular line,...
May 2011
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Anonymous asked: I always liked making graphs using rand. They're all spikey and whatnot!
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lol-tits asked: SHE'S ALIVE! Welcome back to posting :D
Why did I divide sin by tan?
jakefails:
Just cos.
bahahah!
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viviano asked: How cool is this?! http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/05/math-monday-cut-and-fold-escher-2.html
April 2011
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