Schlagwort: Mathematik

Numb(er).

  • 2019-04-03

In summary, algebraic geometry is classical music, and number theory is heavy metal.

Lovely little lemmas

Euler's List.

  • 2019-03-13

Euler's work touched upon so many fields that he is often the earliest written reference on a given matter. In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.

Wikipedia: List of things named after Leonhard Euler

Faulhematik.

  • 2018-11-04

Mathematics is measuring times laziness squared.

Earthlings 101, Episode 13

Wiskunste.

  • 2018-09-02

Ik zweef tussen de wiskunde en de kunst.

M.C. Escher (gelezen door Robin Lutz)

Functowerset.

  • 2017-09-15

I saw now that in my desire to know theorics I had taken shortcuts that, just like shortcuts on a map, turned out to be longcuts. Whenever I’d seen Jesry get it quicker than me, I had misread equations in a way that had seemed easier at the time but made things harder—no, impossible—later.

Fraa Orolo in Anathem by Neal Stephenson