February 2012
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One time.
This one time, I accidentally a math. The whole thing. Everywhere.
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Isomorphismes: Tachyons →
Tachyons
As every sci-fi geek knows, matter may travel faster than the speed of light as long as its mass is imaginary (a multiple of √−1). A so-called tachyon would not overturn special relativity—and it would provide a handy way of resolving any conflicts in a given Star Trek plot.
14th Law of How to Write Star Trek: Whenever you’ve written yourself into a hole, instead of re-writing the show...
January 2012
33 posts
Math is filled with cute results.
The Cauchy-Riemann equations:
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The direct sum of abelian groups is equal to the direct product: A ⊕ B = A × B Freshman’s Dream: (x + y)p = xp + yp in a commutative ring of characteristic p …. the list goes on. Math is riddled with cuteness.
ENDOMORPHISMS! Good times for linear maps.
In mathematics, an endomorphism is a morphism (or homomorphism) from a mathematical object to itself. For example, an endomorphism of a vector space V is a linear mapƒ: V → V, and an endomorphism of a group G is a group homomorphism ƒ: G → G. In the category of sets, endomorphisms are simply functions from a set S into itself.
An invertible endomorphism of X is called an automorphism. The set of...
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This Guy...
“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight. I was coming here, on the way to the lecture, and I came in through the parking lot. And you won’t believe what happened. I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357! Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”
-Richard...
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I’m floating in a black balloon O.D. on Easter afternoon My mama told me “Baby stay clean There’s no in-between” And all you ladies and you gentlemen Between is all you’ve ever seen or been Fit poorly and arrange the sight Doll it up in virgin white You disappoint me, you people raking in on the world The devil’s scrip sells you the heart of a blackbird Shine on...
I know you would have given anything to be in class this morning. I missed you in there. We proved Gauss’s lemma for polynomial rings. I know I would give anything for you to be in class one last time. I know I would give anything to smoke one last cig with you. I know I would give anything to be able to walk into class on friday and sit next to you. and talk about nothing. and be stupid for...
"The science of pure mathematics may claim to be...
The litebrite’s now black and white Cause you took apart a picture that wasn’t right Pitch burning on a shining sheet The only maker that you’d want to meet The dying man in a living room Whose shadow paces the floor Who’ll take you out in the open door This is not my life It’s just a fond farewell to a friend It’s not what I’m like It’s just a fond...
Gone
A close friend of mine passed away this weekend from an overdose. I know you can’t read this but I hope you know I cared even though we fell apart. I promise I won’t remember you the way you were before you left. I promise I won’t remember you fucked up.
I promise I’ll remember you for who you were, and not for who those drugs made you. I promise I’ll remember...
Thermo fact of the evening.
Scuba tanks are often filled up while submerged underwater to prevent the compressed gas from getting too hot.
From A Basement On The Hill.
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I made a twitter. Tweeettt.
https://twitter.com/#!/Kirk_Larsen_
Freshman's Dream
The freshman’s dream is a name sometimes given to the error (x + y)n = xn + yn, where n is a real number (usually a positive integer greater than 1). Beginning students commonly make this error in computing the exponential of a sum of real numbers.[1][2] When n = 2, it is easy to see why this is incorrect: (x + y)2 can be correctly computed as x2 + 2xy + y2using distributivity (or commonly...
