Pure breathtaking mathematical beauty
My personal silence is broken; I must apologise for the low level of activity on my part I have been very busy finishing up the first year of my second […]
Category Archives: Mathematics
The non-orbital electron
I was asked a question about electron orbitals via an email the other day – which basically asked do electrons orbit the atom or not? It is an interesting question […]
Infinity
I read something the other day, in material I had paid for which caused my great anguish. In explaining the concept of infinity it was written “[infinity] is the largest […]
You are so so rare.
I don’t have much content to share with you at all in this post – at least not much of my own. I want to share with you a poster […]
The beauty of being the same
As is the case with many of the important things in the universe, they pass by without due consideration. Today we muse over a funny old thing – symmetry. The […]
How many primes?
One of the first proofs I ever learnt was that there are an infinitely large number of prime numbers. It seems obvious that there should be such because when you […]
Physics has so much potential
I have known what potential energy is for a very long time, but it is only of late I think I have truly began to appreciate its subtly in describing […]
Gravity: Next level pulling power
Imagine doing something every single day of your life, something powerful and fundamental to the lives of everyone around you. Something so valuable the world simply could not exist without […]
The odor of the universe
In my travels through the internet I stumbled on a weird and wonderful fact: space is smelly. Genuinely – it isn’t like one of those science facts that is so […]
Ode to ODEs
I always felt a little cheated when I took my Economics and Mathematics degree – because the differential equation work was fairly light touch. Well actually very light touch – […]
Rationalising The Universe 