Mathematical Formulae May Appear Dry And Inaccessible, But To A Mathematician An Equation Can Embody

Celebrating Pascal’s birthday!

Blaise Pascal was a very influential French mathematician and philosopher who contributed to many areas of mathematics. He worked on conic sections and projective geometry and in correspondence with Fermat he laid the foundations for the theory of probability.

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Come on everyone, this isn’t rocket science! Oh, yeah I guess rocket scientists do these kinds of problems. Well, come on everyone, this is rocket science!

Precalculus professor upon realizing that vectors, magnitude, and direction is exactly related to rocket science (via mathprofessorquotes)

did humans invent math or did we discover it

does math even exist

New Largest Prime Revealed By Computer After Four-Month Delay

I find it hilarious that the computer which made this discovery actually kept it a secret for four whole months. Source: 

“You ask me if an ordinary person by studying hard would get to be able to imagine these things like i imagine. Of Course!..I was an ordinary person who studied hard. There is no miracle people. It just happened they got interested in these things and they learned all these stuff. They’re just people!!There is no talent special miracle ability to understand quantum mechanics or a miracle ability to imagine electromagnetic fields that comes without practice and reading and learning and mathematics. So if you say you take an ordinary person whose willing to devote a great deal of time on studying and thinking and mathematics and so on. Then he’s become a scientist!” -Richard Feynman

What can science tell us about history repeating itself?

Poincaré Recurrence theorem

The Poincaré recurrence theorem states that certain finite systems will, after a sufficiently long but finite time, return to a state very close to the initial state.

The  Poincaré recurrence time tells you how long one should wait for the recurrence to occur.

Now if we churn out the numbers for a hypothetical box containing a black hole with the estimated mass of the entire universe . the Poincaré recurrence time comes out too be this special number:

If we abstract ourselves from the possibility of experimentally testing it out, the key takeaway from this is that the Poincaré recurrence time is a finite number and one does not need to wait forever to observe the recurrence of events in the universe.

Therefore in Physics it does not make any physical sense to talk beyond this time scale.

Great question! Thanks for asking!

Source: Information Loss in Black Holes and/or Conscious Beings? by Don Page  - Please read this if you would like to know how that number was derived.

We choose you, we use you, and we replace you with our x.

Calculus AB Teacher (via mathprofessorquotes)