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    Category: Mathematics

    Octomatics

      description the octomatics project is about a new number system which has a lot of advantages over our old decimal system. the name comes from the… Read more “Octomatics”

    31 Jul 201625 Aug 2016 by QuBits

    The Koch Snowflake

    A fractal, also known as the Koch island, which was first described by Helge von Koch in 1904. It is built by starting with an equilateral triangle,… Read more “The Koch Snowflake”

    20 Jul 201620 Jul 2016 by QuBits

    The golden ratio manifesting in nature

    The universe may be chaotic and unpredictable, but it’s also a highly organized physical realm bound by the laws of mathematics. One of the most fundamental (and… Read more “The golden ratio manifesting in nature”

    25 Jun 201625 Jun 2016 by QuBits

    Laplace’s Equation, Mathematical Key to … Everything

    Physics has its own Rosetta Stones. They’re ciphers, used to translate seemingly disparate regimes of the universe. They tie pure math to any branch of physics your heart… Read more “Laplace’s Equation, Mathematical Key to … Everything”

    23 Jun 201624 Jun 2016 by QuBits

    A peculiar pattern in prime numbers

    Prime numbers, divisible only by 1 and themselves, hate to repeat themselves. They prefer not to mimic the final digit of the preceding prime, mathematicians have discovered.… Read more “A peculiar pattern in prime numbers”

    20 Mar 201620 Mar 2016 by QuBits

    Ancient Babylon figured out forerunner of calculus

    Tracking and recording the motion of the sun, the moon, and the planets as they paraded across the desert sky, ancient Babylonian astronomers used simple arithmetic to… Read more “Ancient Babylon figured out forerunner of calculus”

    31 Jan 201631 Jan 2016 by QuBits

    The Rolling Shutter Phenomenon

      I remember seeing the photo above on Flickr once, and having my brain melt slightly from trying to figure out what went wrong. The issue was… Read more “The Rolling Shutter Phenomenon”

    16 Jan 201616 Jan 2016 by QuBits

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    A familiarity with basic electromagnetic properties will assist the reader of this text. A detailed introduction to electromagnetism is beyond the scope of this appendix, but a… Read more “Magnetic Resonance Imaging”

    14 Jan 201614 Jan 2016 by QuBits

    The Far Ends of a New Universal Law

    Imagine an archipelago where each island hosts a single tortoise species and all the islands are connected — say by rafts of flotsam. As the tortoises interact… Read more “The Far Ends of a New Universal Law”

    6 Dec 20156 Dec 2015 by QuBits

    Life Is a Braid in Spacetime

    Excuse me, but what’s the time?” I’m guessing that you, like me, are guilty of having asked this question, as if it were obvious that there is… Read more “Life Is a Braid in Spacetime”

    3 Oct 20155 Oct 2015 by QuBits

    Maths whizz solves a master’s riddle

    A mathematical puzzle that resisted solution for 80 years — including computerized attempts to crack it — seems to have yielded to a single mathematician. Terence Tao,… Read more “Maths whizz solves a master’s riddle”

    27 Sep 201528 Sep 2015 by QuBits

    Parallel Universes Is Not Just Math: It Can Be Tested

    The existence of parallel universes may seem like something cooked up by science fiction writers, with little relevance to modern theoretical physics. But the idea that we… Read more “Parallel Universes Is Not Just Math: It Can Be Tested”

    6 Sep 20157 Jun 2016 by QuBits

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