Richard Feynman

Archimedes and the Area of a Circle

 

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Richard Feynman

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Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"If you are receptive and humble, mathematics will lead you by the hand." - Paul Dirac

"Sweat more  during peace: bleed less during war." - Sun Tzu

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people's lives." - Thomas Sowell

"God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world." - Paul Dirac

"Good science, original work, always went beyond the body of received opinion, always represented a dissent from orthodoxy. How, then, could the orthodoxy fairly assess it?" - Richard Rhodes

"Often the masses are plundered and do not know it." - Frederic Bastiat

The History of Zero - One of the Most Important Concepts in History

The Story of Zero - Getting Something from Nothing from The Royal Institution on Vimeo.

June Huh - 2022 Fields Medal Winner

Interesting profile of June Huh - the 2022 Fields Medal (the highest award in mathematics)  winner.

I'm reminded of genius physicist Paul Dirac who was distrustful of any equation if it wasn't "beautiful."

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Physicists puzzled by strange numbers that could explain reality. I had never heard of Octonions before.

- I'll probably never use Octonions - but I will never forget this math!

- How to think like Sherlock Holmes

- Man I wish there was a video of this beatdown

- Wow! Lightning engulfing a volcanic eruption in Chile

- Forty ways the world is getting better

- Climate change - lie, damn lies, and statistics