December 2010
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Dec 31st
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“You must not attempt this approach to parallels. I know this way to its very...”
– Farkas Bolyai, in a letter to his son János Bolyai, both mathematicians of the 19th century who studied alternatives to Euclidean geometry
Dec 27th
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“It must be a strange world not being a scientist, going through life not...”
– Dr. Michio Kaku (via ageofreason)
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Day 10: Pets
I’ve got a dog, Cleo. She’s an 8-year-old lab, and what else can I say other than what any dog-owner will say: she’s adorable, sweet, and cuddly.
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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“The lawlike uniformity that so impresses us in the orbits of stars and in...”
– Nietzsche
Dec 23rd
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“I love astrophysics, I love particle physics. I love getting lost in those eons,...”
– George Carlin
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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That feeling, when you set up your integral with...
I did the damn integral on my exam backwards! We were supposed to switch the order of integration, and I did—-well half of it. I integrated with respect to y twice. FML.
Dec 23rd
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What came first, math or the mathematician?
Dec 22nd
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“We are told that we are rebellious for rejecting tradition and custom and...”
– Ebon Musings
Dec 22nd
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“Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good; love one...”
– Romans 12:9-10
Dec 22nd
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“Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish”
– Proverbs 12:1
Dec 22nd
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“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike...”
– Mohandas Ghandi (via ageofreason)
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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“We’ll burn like stars, she said. We’ll burn as we fall.”
– AFI
Dec 17th
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Dec 15th
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Day ??: Favorite Subject to Study
My favorite subject to study… This one is really difficult, because I have an incredibly wide range of passions. But after some consideration, my gut reaction is correct: Math. I love the elegance, the application to the world, the way it’s the language of science. I love how math is something that humans have created (or at least defined and refined from only a few natural givens),...
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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“Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection...”
– Unknown Author (via ageofreason)
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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“I think it’s more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers...”
– Richard Feynman
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 8th
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“This course has to help you leap the gap between the concreteness of calculus...”
– Linear Algebra Professor Oh good. Calc is lumped in with the “lower” math courses. Oh, good…
Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
Day 8: Fitness
I’m so damn lazy. I used to get it into my head that I wanted to become a runner, and I joined the track team a couple times. Or I would run on the treadmill for a half hour every night for a few weeks before giving up on the idea. If there is a hell, that’s it. Hell is long distance running. Sure, you get to feel all smug and superior—“Yea, I run 2 miles a day. For FUN. What do you do?” But...
Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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