Life Through a Mathematician's Eyes

In today's post I wanted to share a little creative way of showing some digits of square root of 2. The square root of 2 (approximately 1.4142) is a positive real number that, when multiplied by itself, equals the number 2. Technically, it should be called the principal square root of 2, to distinguish it from the negative number with the same property. General Information It is the length of a diagonal across a square with sides of one unit of length; this follows from the P

Last day of the Advent Calendar!! Thank you for your patience and support. Keep loving and enjoying the beauty of mathematics. Make sure you share your love for mathematics with the people around you. Have a wonderful magical festive season! Ioana ^_^ #maths #adventcalendar #WixBlog #funmaths #merrychristmas

A day before the Christmas Eve and I had to share some Christmas Maths Carols. They are so funny and I think they could sound great. "Fill The Boards With Differentials" By Denis Gannon (1940-1991) may be sung to the tune of "Deck The Halls" Fill the boards with differentials, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA LA-LA-LA-LA, Note that du's are essential, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA LA-LA-LA-LA, C's are constants here before us, FA-LA-LA LA-LA-LA La-La-LA, Integration cannot floor us, FA-LA-LA-LA-LA LA-LA-LA-L

The following image has been circulating on the internet and I think it is such a fun way of understanding the importance of axis. Axis and a Christmas Tree A Cartesian coordinate system in a plane is a coordinate system that specifies each point uniquely by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances to the point from two fixed perpendicular oriented lines, measured in the same unit of length. Each reference line is called a coordinate axis or just axis (

In today's post I want to share one fiction book that has presented mathematics nicely. I am a huge fan of science-fiction fantasy books and of course this book is this category. General Description THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME. OR IS THERE? After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where he is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, Professor Andrew Martin is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son ar

In today's post I wanted to share a little creative way of showing some digits of e. The number e, also known as Euler's number, is a mathematical constant approximately equal to 2.71828, and can be characterized in many ways. When used as the base for a logarithm, we call that logarithm the natural logarithm and write it as lnx. This is another interesting mathematical constants. General Information The (natural) exponential function f(x) = e^x is the unique function f that

Just because for Day 11, we spoke about Christmas Trees, let us speak about Christmas decorations today. I discovered that the internet is full with extremely beautiful, fun and interesting geometric decorations for X-mas trees. It looks like the geometric style has spread through the interior design domain a lot. And I happy to see people giving more credit to geometry when it comes to art. So here are some my favorite examples (source from the photos is mostly Pinteres): 1.

Christmas is almost here and because these are also last days of school (or university) for some of you I thought I will show some interesting DIY Christmas trees. There is also some mathematics hidden in each project. But first I have to say that none of the ideas are entirely mine, I just found them on Pinterest and adapted them for a mathematical approach. 1. Pyramids X-mas Tree This is one of those more abstract and artistically way to make a Christmas tree. With a little

I think you already know that I am a huge lover of mathematics in art, especially when the pieces of art present the mathematical connections found in nature. Thus, I got extremely excited when I heard about these coloring books. I was always a big fan of coloring books even before they became popular nowadays. The projects I want to talk about today are the Golden Ratio Coloring Books. Golden Ratio Coloring Book by Rafael Araujo Rafael Araujo is a Venezuelan architect and il

I wanted to have a couple of days when I am sharing some interesting historical aspect. Today is the 1st day with interesting historical facts. Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the sub

In today's post I wanted to share a little creative way of showing some digits of Pi. I believe it is one of the most interesting mathematical constants. General Definition The number π is a mathematical constant. It is defined in Euclidean geometry as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and also has various equivalent definitions. The number appears in many formulas in all areas of mathematics and physics. The earliest known use of the Greek letter π to re

In today's post I want to share one of my favourite movies that has some interesting mathematical aspects. December is a great time to watch some awesome movies and this is a great example. Good Will Hunting Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American psychological drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, and starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgård. Written by Affleck and Damon, the film follows 20-year-old South Boston janitor Will Hunting

In today's post I want to share one of the books that inspired me the most in my first year of university. It was recommended to me by my favourite teacher at the time and it had I love it. It helped me a lot during my university years for any type of basic information. General Description For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the

In today's post I want to share some great advent calendars all over the internet. There are a lot of blogs, organizations, websites that have some interesting Advent Calendars that are worth to check. The Plus advent calendar 2021 This year they have started a collaboration with the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (INI). The INI is an international research centre that attracts leading mathematical scientists from all over the world, and our neighbour here o