18 MAY 2012 by ideonexus Learning to Read Nature
Written in mathematics, one must learn that language to understand science.
Folksonomies: education,mathematics

24 APR 2012 by ideonexus Physics Delves into More and More Abstract Mathematics
According to Paul A. M. Dirac.
Folksonomies: physics,mathematics

24 APR 2012 by ideonexus Mathematics Feels Real, but is Paradoxical
Real to the mathematician, paradoxical to the philosopher.
Folksonomies: mathematics,philosophy

23 MAR 2012 by ideonexus Metaphor for the Mathematician
As a designer of garments for unknown beings, who delights in learning their shape as they go.
Folksonomies: metaphor,mathematics,discovery

30 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Biology is Too complex for Mathematical Explanation
The biologist is inundated by a mass of facts.
Folksonomies: biology,mathematics

23 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Elementary Teachers Misrepresent Mathematics
They disassociate mathematics from the real world. All math came from explorers trying to understand the world.
Folksonomies: education,mathematics

23 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Naming the Science of Probability
A definition of the early field of mathematics.
Folksonomies: history,mathematics,probability

19 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Mathematics as Magic
Ludwig Bolzmann describes working through Maxwell's dynamical theory of gases.
Folksonomies: wonder,mathematics

19 JAN 2012 by ideonexus How Euclid Became a Physician
Bolzano reads a mathematical doctrine by Euclid when he is ill and immediately feels better.
Folksonomies: wonder,mathematics

12 JAN 2012 by ideonexus 2,305,843,008,139,952,128 is the Greatest Perfect Number of 1811
231-1 = 2147483647 is a prime number, and a number on which this number relies. The prime number is the largest value for a 32-bit signed integer. Barlow believed no prime greater than this would be discovered as there was no point.
Folksonomies: mathematics,numbers,prime numbers