Projective Geometry Geometry is a discipline which has long been subject to mathematical fashions of the ages. In classical Greece, Euclid’s elements (Euclid pictured above) with their logical axiomatic base established the subject as the pinnacle on the “great mountain of Truth” that all other disciplines could but hope to scale. However the status of […]
Narcissistic Numbers Narcissistic Numbers are defined as follows: An n digit number is narcissistic if the sum of its digits to the nth power equal the original number. For example with 2 digits, say I choose the number 36: 32 + 62 = 45. Therefore 36 is not a narcissistic number, as my answer is […]
Quantum Mechanics – Statistical Universe Quantum mechanics is the name for the mathematics that can describe physical systems on extremely small scales. When we deal with the macroscopic – i.e scales that we experience in our everyday physical world, then Newtonian mechanics works just fine. However on the microscopic level of particles, Newtonian mechanics […]
Modeling hours of daylight Desmos has a nice student activity (on teacher.desmos.com) modeling the number of hours of daylight in Florida versus Alaska – which both produce a nice sine curve when plotted on a graph. So let’s see if this relationship also holds between Phuket and Manchester. First we can find the daylight hours […]
Cartoon from here The Gini Coefficient – Measuring Inequality The Gini coefficient is a value ranging from 0 to 1 which measures inequality. 0 represents perfect equality – i.e everyone in a population has exactly the same wealth. 1 represents complete inequality – i.e 1 person has all the wealth and everyone else has nothing. […]
Is Intergalactic space travel possible? The Andromeda Galaxy is around 2.5 million light years away – a distance so large that even with the speed of light at traveling as 300,000,000m/s it has taken 2.5 million years for that light to arrive. The question is, would it ever be possible for a journey to the […]
