Follow-up: The Infinite Series and the Mind-Blowing Result.

Follow-up: The Infinite Series and the Mind-Blowing Result.: "The infinite series in the video (1+2+3+4+5+…) can in fact be tackled using a rigorous mathematical method and can in fact be assigned a value of -1/12! This method is quite real and very useful. And yes, the weirdness of it is brain melting."

This Video Shows Just How Beautiful Mathematics Is

This Video Shows Just How Beautiful Mathematics Is: "Betrand Russell once wrote that '[m]athematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music.' In this video, Yann Pineill and Nicolas Lefaucheux prove him right.

In the triptych video, an equation appears on the left, a technical diagram in the middle, and real-life footage of the phenomenon in question on the right. Covering everything from the motion of spinning of a top, through computer architecture, to the sugar in your coffee, it shows how simple and elegant mathematical equations can explain incredibly complex concepts. Mathematics really is beautiful. "

Run historic software in your Web browser - TechBlog

Run historic software in your Web browser - TechBlog: "The personal computer revolution is now almost 40 years old – if you date it from the original Altair 8800 – and a lot of software has come and gone since then. Many of the earliest applications won’t run on today’s powerful machines – if you can find copies of them at all.

For some time, The Internet Archive has maintained a collection of classic code that you could download, though you might have to find and install the right emulation software. Now, the site has made it easy to run some of the programs right in your Web browser with the Historical Software Archive.

That’s right, now you can once again experience the thrill of writing in WordStar, in all its green-screen, CP/M-based glory."

Family's anger as council orders removal of sudoku headstone of mathematician Allan Robinson | Mail Online

Family's anger as council orders removal of sudoku headstone of mathematician Allan Robinson | Mail Online: "When retired mathematician Allan Robinson passed away after a battle with cancer, his grieving family chose an epitaph that he would have heartily approved of – a sudoku puzzle and equation.

It did not take long, however, before zealous officials on the parish council had formed their own rather bizarre opinion of the gravestone.

They ordered Mr Robinson’s widow Angela to remove the highly personal engravings because they are ‘contrary to guidelines for headstone inscriptions’."

Formula for the perfect PIZZA revealed: Mathematician creates equation to ensure you don't burn - or undercook - a margherita | Mail Online

Formula for the perfect PIZZA revealed: Mathematician creates equation to ensure you don't burn - or undercook - a margherita | Mail Online: "Soggy bottoms and burnt crusts could be a thing of the past for troubled cooks who are making pizzas from scratch at home.

A mathematician claims to have come up with the first-ever formula for the 'perfectly proportioned' pizza, taking into account factors like the ratio of topping to base.

Dr Eugenia Cheng said pizza lovers get more topping per bite in a smaller pizza, but a more even spread of bites in a larger pizza."

Voevodsky’s Mathematical Revolution | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

Voevodsky’s Mathematical Revolution | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network: "Voevodsky told mathematicians that their lives are about to change. Soon enough, they’re going to find themselves doing mathematics at the computer, with the aid of computer proof assistants. Soon, they won’t consider a theorem proven until a computer has verified it. Soon, they’ll be able to collaborate freely, even with mathematicians whose skills they don’t have confidence in. And soon, they’ll understand the foundations of mathematics very differently."

The Simpsons' secret formula: it's written by maths geeks | Television & radio | The Observer

The Simpsons' secret formula: it's written by maths geeks | Television & radio | The Observer: "Without doubt, the most mathematically sophisticated television show in the history of primetime broadcasting is The Simpsons. This is not a figment of my deranged mind, which admittedly is obsessed with both The Simpsons and mathematics, but rather it is a concrete claim backed up in a series of remarkable episodes."