Tag: science

  • Road Coloring Problem

    Until recently, the Road Coloring theorem was known as the Road Coloring conjecture. This means that it was a hypothesis that had not yet been proven by anyone. Avraham Trahtman proved it in September 2007. It therefore became a mathematical theorem. The conjecture of this problem was first made in 1970 by Benjamin Weiss and…

  • Avraham Trahtman Solves Road Coloring Problem

    Israeli mathematician Avraham Trahtman solves the Road Coloring Problem. Mathematicians have been working on it since 1970. My rudimentary explanation of the problem and its proof. (Here is a link to the proof in PDF version)

  • Bubble Chamber

    Bubble Chamber is a generative painting system of imaginary colliding particles built with Processing. A single super-massive collision produces a discrete universe of four particle types. Particles draw their positions over time resulting in the construction of oddly familiar patterns. (via cpluv)

  • Team Work

    Today I was doing a team assignment in Analysis I with four other guys. In our usual team, one guys had abandoned the class. Another guy joined us. He’s annoying because he speaks very loud and he’s about 50 years old. I don’t have anything against older people, but he kept trying to talk over…

  • Neuroanatomist Had Stroke And Described It

    Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke one morning and described it.

  • Pi Day

    It’s Pi Day, so happy Pi Day. Happy π Day! What’s Pi Day? Pi Day and Pi Approximation Day are two holidays held to celebrate the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 (3/14 in American date format), due to π being equal to roughly 3.14. Sometimes it is celebrated on…

  • Google Sky

    Search for constellations and distant galaxies thanks to Google Sky.

  • E8 Could Be The Shape Of Our Universe

    Surfer dude says that E8 could be the shape of our universe.

  • Midterms

    Function sin cos tan csc sec cot sinθ = cosθ = tanθ = cscθ = secθ = cotθ = I’m busy studying for a midterm tomorrow morning. It’s a Teaching College Level Mathematics class. The teacher is interesting and younger than I am. He obtained his Masters a year or two ago. My program director…

  • Whistled Language

    Not it’s not out of science-fiction, it’s real!  Whistled language is used to communicate over large distances.