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Math_Bits

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Bits of mathematics lore; theory, practice, history, and possibilities. Once per day, more or less, depending on the breaks or the grotesques.

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Beautiful post by @RobJLow on what complex numbers _really_ are and where they _really_ came from robjlow.blogspot.com/2017/06/what-i…


Galois Theory for Beginners (pdf) by John Stillwell. bit.ly/2qsuIYK


Great video on overbooking and the binomial distribution. bit.ly/2o3Q2OQ


How Inge Lehmann Discovered the Inner Core of the Earth (pdf) by Christianne Rousseau. bit.ly/1yF7D14


e: The Master of All (pdf) by Brian J. McCartin. bit.ly/1kqtFMI


Radiology Paging a Good Mathematician: Why Math Can Contribute More to Medicine Than You Might Think (pdf) bit.ly/2nXAbVK


The Man Who Found God’s Number (pdf) by David Joyner. bit.ly/2nU53qk


Catering for the Extremes by W. W. Sawyer. bit.ly/2neusay


Logic vs Pedagogy by Morris Kline. bit.ly/2i7UKfI


Saturday Morning Mathematics in Cambridge by W W Sawyer. bit.ly/anp5Tz


University of Oxford Mathematical Institute / Rafael Viñoly Architects bit.ly/22uiw6q


"Euler and Infinite Series" (pdf) by Morris Kline. bit.ly/hT4DU0


"Trig Without Tears" (pdf) by Stan Brown. bit.ly/1Pet5gX


It's also a Pythagorean triple.

Look at the date! Just look at it! (If only I'd spotted it for myself - thanks to Mr Turton for pointing it out!)

DHFSmaths's tweet image. Look at the date! Just look at it! (If only I'd spotted it for myself - thanks to Mr Turton for pointing it out!)


Harry Potter and the set of all sets that do not contain themselves. bit.ly/1UTyZI4


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The maths of surprise and why you need the logarithm to measure information bit.ly/1xBaZEo


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Q: Why did the topologist's marriage fail? A: Because he thought arbitrary unions were open! #mathjokes


Euler and Infinite Series (pdf) by Morris Kline. bit.ly/hT4DU0


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How can you not see the pattern?!? 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628… IT’S SO OBVIOUS! #PiDay


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