Basal metabolic rate calculation.
cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/9963785...
Michel Talagrand's reaction to winning the 2024 Abel Prize (www.youtube.com)
How the Fibonacci sequence can convert between Miles and Kilometers (archive.ph)
It’s an approximation but still… It’s an interesting quick read.
Full Berkeley Lectures on Group Theory (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/3863820...
A Brief History of Tricky Mathematical Tiling | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
Y'all are dark magicians
Sometimes I’ll feel like “yeah, I know some math, I can do integrals!”, then watch some YouTube video from Micheal Penn about why there’s no three dimensional complex numbers, and suddenly it’s dark magic. I understand absolutely n o t h i n g. it’s impressive, inspiring, depressing, overwhelming, all at the same...
Easy Puzzle #1
Let f be a function. We are told that f^2 (f composed with itself) has a unique fixed point. How many fixed points could f have?
Symmetric tangled Platonic polyhedra, Stephen Hyde (2021) - Article (www.pnas.org)
Who else loves the brilliant app
I hate paying for the app and I wish kahn academy had something like it....