July 2012
Watchmrsweasley:
Mr. Bean at the opening ceremonies. Literally the most epic part of the entire thing. I never thought they’d top James Bond parachuting with The Queen, but then they fucking did, and I lost it.
Q: Why are there pie eating contests, but not pi eating contests?
A: Because pi eating contests take forever.
The not-so-simple life: Another Mathematics Rant →
ladycluck:
What do you need maths for? Why do we study calculus, trigonometry, Pythagoras’ theorem and all that stuff?
Have you ever looked at a bridge? Let’s say the Forth Bridge in Edinburgh.
Here’s a picture:
See all those little triangles? Why do bridges use triangles? Because they are the…
“One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is...”
– Albert Einstein (via theweirdbadgerr)
cryingvagina:
chewing mint gum then drinking water
Euler's Identity
philosophicalpoetry:
You know these numbers:
On the surface they appear unrelated. e is the base of natural logarithms, i is imaginary, π concerns circles. But, amazingly:
Harvard mathematician Benjamin Peirce told a class, “It is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means, but we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.”
