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Indiscriminate laziness

Pencil Hyperboloid

Posted on 2018/12/19 by Carl Robitaille

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1072037507334881280

THE ELEMENTS OF EUCLID WITH COLOURED DIAGRAMS AND SYMBOLS

Posted on 2018/12/19 by Carl Robitaille

THE ELEMENTS OF EUCLIDWITH COLOURED DIAGRAMS AND SYMBOLS

I recreated Byrne's 1847 edition of Euclid's Elements including interactive diagrams, cross references, and a new poster of all the original illustrations: https://t.co/pIz7DcbyVl Plus an in-depth blog post on how it was made: https://t.co/ZBl0Ncx8Ud pic.twitter.com/Kjp6bnayHE
— Nicholas Rougeux (@rougeux) December 16, 2018

Same perimeter, different area.

Posted on 2018/12/19 by Carl Robitaille

Same perimeter, different area. pic.twitter.com/A8hOQc2eRF
— Simon Pampena (@mathemaniac) November 4, 2018

Escape from reality

Posted on 2018/12/19 by Carl Robitaille

“Mathematics is an escape from reality”
– Stanislaw Ulam

We all need an escape from reality every once in a while. #WednesdayWisdom pic.twitter.com/bZEli6za6t
— the Center of Math (@centerofmath) December 19, 2018

Mathematicians Seal Back Door to Breaking RSA Encryption

Posted on 2018/12/18 by Carl Robitaille

Mathematicians Seal Back Door to Breaking RSA Encryption

How fast can you multiply matrices?

Posted on 2018/12/11 by Carl Robitaille

How fast can you multiply matrices?

Theorem about math jokes

Posted on 2018/12/11 by Carl Robitaille

Theorem about math jokes

Patented primes

Posted on 2018/12/10 by Carl Robitaille

In 1994, Roger Schlafly, trying to showcase the flaws of US Patents, patented two primes. These primes were used to improve modular division thus saving a lot of time in the Diffie-Hellman method for public-key encryption – critical to secure lots of Internet services at the time pic.twitter.com/TM5d5MC0jG
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) December 10, 2018

Terrific Toothpick Patterns – Numberphile

Posted on 2018/12/10 by Carl Robitaille

Mistaken for homework

Posted on 2018/12/08 by Carl Robitaille

In 1939, George Dantzig, a graduate student at UC Berkeley, solved two open problems in statistical theory, which he had mistaken for homework after arriving late to a lecture by Jerzy Neyman. The two problems ended up being his entire PhD thesis. pic.twitter.com/0K6wkDgey0
— Fermat's Library (@fermatslibrary) December 8, 2018