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Turns out, writing up mathematical theory is not the best preparation for a duel where you will get shot at.
Galois theory professor
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It’s like a Kafka-esque parking lot, descending straight to hell.
Algebraic topology professor on covering spaces (via mathprofessorquotes)
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Faig Ahmed’s Glitch Rugs
By rearticulating traditional Azerbaijani rug design, Faig Ahmed creates sculptural textiles that look like digital glitches, patterns flatlining halfway through a tapestry or gradually morphing into a digital mosaic.
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i really am, from the bottom of my heart, an actual fucking idiot
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If one remembers this particular episode from the popular sitcom ‘Friends’ where Ross is trying to carry a sofa to his apartment, it seems that moving a sofa up the stairs is ridiculously hard.
But life shouldn’t be that hard now should it?
The mathematician Leo Moser posed in 1966 the following curious mathematical problem: what is the shape of largest area in the plane that can be moved around a right-angled corner in a two-dimensional hallway of width 1? This question became known as the moving sofa problem, and is still unsolved fifty years after it was first asked.
The most common shape to move around a tight right angled corner is a square.
And another common shape that would satisfy this criterion is a semi-circle.
But what is the largest area that can be moved around?
Well, it has been conjectured that the shape with the largest area that one can move around a corner is known as “Gerver’s sofa”. And it looks like so:
Wait.. Hang on a second
This sofa would only be effective for right handed turns. One can clearly see that if we have to turn left somewhere we would be kind of in a tough spot.
Prof.Romik from the University of California, Davis has proposed this shape popularly know as Romik’s ambidextrous sofa that solves this problem.
Although Prof.Romik’s sofa may/may not be the not the optimal solution, it is definitely is a breakthrough since this can pave the way for more complex ideas in mathematical analysis and more importantly sofa design.
Have a good one!
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btw the correct metaphor for math is that it’s a big plate of spaghetti. most of the noodles are so tangled and buried in there that there’s no clear path to them, and people keep eating the same spaghetti noodle from different ends and then accidentally kissing.
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“I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brush her hair, wash her laundry, tuck her in goodnight. Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know I deserve more.”
— Michelle K., I Know I Deserve More. (via michellekpoems)
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Artist’s Temporary Decaying Art Brings Enchantment To The Forest
British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy is known for his phenomenal and temporary, installations which involve using natural elements, ranging from sticks, stones, leaves and twigs and anything that grows out of the earth. Sharing a special connection with the land ,which he celebrates in all his sculptures, Goldsworthy shows the world that nature cannot be contained, but only its beauty can be held on a canvas for precious few moments before the land recalls what it once grew.
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Math theorems as clickbait:
Geometers Hate Him! Man Finds Secret Relationship Between Sides of Rights Triangles
You Won’t BELIEVE What These Two Mathematicians Can Do To A Single Ball – Just By Moving Pieces Of It Around!
7 MORE Functions That Are More Analytic Than You Think
Does This Barber Shave His Own Head Or Not? The Answer Is More Complicated Than You Think
Thought Your Logical System Was Safe From Inconsistencies? Think Again
He Just Wanted a Good Voting System – But What He Found Will BLOW YOUR MIND
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Ekaterina Krysanova in Alexei Ratmansky’s Romeo and Juliet at the Bolshoi Theatre
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