Just listened to last Friday's Front Row, and have found out that the institute of figuring have produced a model of the Great Barrier Reef and it's on display at the Hayward! Apparently the Great Barrier Reef is a hyperbolic surface ( Read more... )

ed_fortune directed me to the flickr group Song Chart, where pop songs of varying degrees of popularity are represented in graph form.

There are some really witty, pithy, graphs even if they are sometimes quite obscure.

Unfortunately like indexed the ideas are often spoilt by the execution.

It's depressing how many don't understand graphsRunning with ( Read more... )

Each of the seven pieces in tetris are composed of four squares. So is it possible to fit one of each into a seven by four rectangle?

Two weddings in two days. Much too much to much to say, so I'll just leave you with an equation from the second r = 1-sinθ and a poem from the first:

Love

I love you
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.

I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.

I love you
For the part of me
That you ( Read more... )

Most of what I do day-to-day involves algebraic manipulation, which is a glorified way of saying shuffling symbols round till they say what you want them to. Everyone who's remotely numerate knows that you can rearrange sums with finitely many terms any way you want ( Read more... )

Feeling I should write more about maths sometime. But am feeling tired so I'm going to cheat and put up something I wrote too long ago for me to bother working out how long ago it was. On the plus side I did have a weekend worth the tiredness I'm feeling now.

ConnectednessThere is no path I can trace between us ( Read more... )