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Amazing Numbers for the Fruit of Life

10 Mar 2020 6 minute read 1 comment GGori

By Giuseppe Gori © This article can be copied, with attribution. The “Fruit of Life” is the name given to a geometrical figure of 13 circles assembled along the three main directions at 60 degrees angles, thus creating a composite structure analogous...

Explanation of the Arrow Paradox, Attributed to Zeno

7 Mar 2020 2 minute read 0 comments GGori

In the arrow paradox, Zeno uses the example of an arrow in flight. He states that for motion to occur, the arrow must change the position which it occupies, but for every such position we see no motion, thus motion does not exist. Modern formulation:...

(IJCH) Why a few Marines learned some Math - Not just any Math, the Nash Equilibrium!

15 Nov 2019 6 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

Source IJCH - Inside JaiChai's Head (Meaning: My Warped, Personal Opinions and Musings) Source From the Author: Salutations. I am JaiChai. And if I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you before, I'm delighted to make your acquaintance now. Source (B...

(IJCH) Continuing My Math Journey: Blaise Pascal - Inventor, Theologian, Philosopher, Writer, Scientist, and Mathematician

14 Nov 2019 9 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

Source IJCH - Inside JaiChai's Head (Meaning: My Warped, Personal Opinions and Musings) Source From the Author: Salutations. I am JaiChai. And if I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you before, I'm delighted to make your acquaintance now. Source (B...

(IJCH) The Clash of the Calculus Titans

14 Nov 2019 2 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

Source IJCH - Inside JaiChai's Head (Meaning: My Warped, Personal Opinions and Musings) Source From the Author: Salutations. I am JaiChai. And if I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you before, I'm delighted to make your acquaintance now. Source (B...

(IJCH) Seriously? All this Math came from India!?

14 Nov 2019 2 minute read 0 comments JaiChai

Source IJCH - Inside JaiChai's Head (Meaning: My Warped, Personal Opinions and Musings) Source From the Author: Salutations. I am JaiChai. And if I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you before, I'm delighted to make your acquaintance now. Source (B...

There’s [Probability] Theory, and Then There’s Reality

21 Oct 2019 3 minute read 2 comments Daniel Goldman

Mathematicians sometimes forget that real life doesn’t always function like mathematical objects do. Expected value is an important concept in mathematics, as well as topics of epidemiology and public health, economics and finance, project man...

Finite Elements - what are they used for?

29 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Thodin

Hello and welcome to my new blog. Here, I will share my experience on developing my own finite element code from scratch in C++. So let us get started. What are finite elements, and what can they be used for? In physics, mathematical equations can be...

The Science and Mathematics of Blockchain Cuties Breeding

25 Jun 2019 6 minute read 0 comments Daniel Goldman

Genetics Cutie genetics are fairly different from regular genetics. The BC wiki already covers most of the basics needed for this discussion. The main point to cover here is that a gene refers to a specific trait. Alleles are specific versions of a g...

Why Is Science Such a Powerful Tool?

18 Jun 2019 3 minute read 2 comments Daniel Goldman

Humans are inherently subjective creatures. We view our world in a very subjective way, and evolution even suggests that we haven’t evolved to view the world as it is. Instead, we rely on heuristics that allow us to make rapid decisions. Unfortunatel...