How to Become a Pure Mathematician (or Statistician) Mathematicians. According to Alfréd Rény and/or Paul Erdos, “A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”
But while being able to pee theorems is way cooler than writing your name in the snow, according to movies, math will drive you insane: Just The Facts A mathematician is someone who studies and adds to the intellectual body of mathematics. Mathematicians are smart. If you read the first fact above and snickered at the word "body," then you're probably not smart enough to be a mathematician. The Greatest Mathematicians. These are the mathematicians that we here at Cracked have decided are the best.
Carl F. Leonhard Euler Euler (pronounced like the "Oiler" in the Houston Oilers) was smart. Archimedes Archimedes did a lot of work with geometry and physics. Bernhard Riemann In addition to having an awesome beard, Riemann developed the mathematical background for general relativity and introduced what is now called the Riemann Zeta function. Not to menation, a better lover. Hey, hey! From Wolfram MathWorld. Creative Thinking Is a Specific Process That Can Be Replicated. Some rules i try to live by: Music - Musical Temperaments and Ratios - Phonature Technology.
Building Guitar Chords : Worked example Local copy, original at www.phonature.com Introduction The fingering for different guitar chords is one of the biggest mysteries in guitar playing.
Even with a chord dictionary of a thousand chords, you might still fail to find certain chords. The spiral shaped Mathematical Cochlea scale gives the whole picture of which string is responsible for which tones. The basic concept of the Mathematical Cochlea is to represent an octave by a circle which is divided into 12 semi-tones like a clock face. Relating the fretboard to the Mathematical Cochlea For convenience of discussion, we shall use the standard E guitar tuning in our worked example. The chord types and spelling A natural extension of the Pentatonic scale is to further subdivide the wider gaps. Now we get back to understanding the meaning of chords and how they are specified. Chord Structure and Semitone Structure The key and spelling of a chord The key specifies the base note of the chord. Fractal Animations. Complexity and Chaos Theory in Art. Complexity and Chaos Theory in Art by Jay Kappraff New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark NJ kappraff@aol.com Kauffman and Varela propose the following experiment: Sprinkle sand or place a thin layer of glycerine over the surface of a metal plate; draw a violin bow carefully along the plate boundary.
Hans Jenny in his book Cymatics [1] has noted from this experiment: "Since the various aspects of these phenomena are due to vibration, we are confronted with a spectrum which reveals patterned figurate formations at one pole and kinetic-dynamic processes at the other, the whole being generated and sustained by its essential periodicity. These are poetic ideas, metaphoric notions, and yet they have reflections in all fields from the wave/particle duality of quantum physics, to oscillations within the nervous system to the oscillations and distinctions that we make at every moment of our lives. G. Figure 2: A mark of distinction separating inside from outside.
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