{ "author": { "name": "Tom Paton", "url": "https://tompaton.com/" }, "description": "Tom's blog.", "favicon": "https://tompaton.com/favicon.ico", "feed_url": "https://tompaton.com/blog/tags/mathematics.json", "home_page_url": "https://tompaton.com/blog/tags/mathematics", "items": [ { "attachments": [ { "mime_type": "text/x.cached.html", "title": "cached", "url": "cached/youtu.be/Jv9GoZP5-64.html" } ], "content_text": "This is a good talk on solving the eternity puzzle.", "date_published": "2022-03-23T20:34:48+11:00", "external_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv9GoZP5-64", "id": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2022/03/23/bookmark-teddy-talks-the-eternity-puzzle-professor-oliver-riordan", "tags": [ "bookmarks", "video", "mathematics" ], "title": "Teddy Talks: The Eternity Puzzle - Professor Oliver Riordan", "url": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2022/03/23/bookmark-teddy-talks-the-eternity-puzzle-professor-oliver-riordan" }, { "attachments": [ { "mime_type": "text/x.cached.html", "title": "cached", "url": "cached/www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w.html" } ], "content_text": "Really good summary of the history of analog computers. Need to remember that all the cogs etc. have analog electronic analogs too which means this doesn't all have to be brass cogs...", "date_published": "2021-12-29T21:24:14+11:00", "external_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w", "id": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2021/12/29/bookmark-veritasium-analogue-computers-part-1", "tags": [ "bookmarks", "video", "veritasium", "mathematics" ], "title": "Veritasium: Analog Computers (part 1)", "url": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2021/12/29/bookmark-veritasium-analogue-computers-part-1" }, { "attachments": [ { "mime_type": "text/x.cached.html", "title": "cached", "url": "cached/www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw.html" } ], "content_text": "Nice video explaining how B\u00e9zier curves work.", "date_published": "2021-11-30T17:55:15+11:00", "external_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw", "id": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2021/11/30/bookmark-the-beauty-of-bezier-curves", "tags": [ "bookmarks", "mathematics", "visualisation", "video" ], "title": "The Beauty of B\u00e9zier Curves", "url": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2021/11/30/bookmark-the-beauty-of-bezier-curves" }, { "attachments": [ { "mime_type": "text/x.cached.html", "title": "cached", "url": "cached/ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/index.html" } ], "content_text": "Interactive article explaining how curves and surfaces are modelled.", "date_published": "2021-11-30T17:51:50+11:00", "external_url": "https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/", "id": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2021/11/30/bookmark-curves-and-surfaces-bartosz-ciechanowski", "tags": [ "bookmarks", "mathematics", "visualisation" ], "title": "Curves and Surfaces \u2013 Bartosz Ciechanowski", "url": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2021/11/30/bookmark-curves-and-surfaces-bartosz-ciechanowski" }, { "attachments": [ { "mime_type": "text/x.cached.html", "title": "cached", "url": "cached/iancoleman.io/shamir/index.html" }, { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K54ildEW9-Q" } ], "content_text": "Useful page to split a secret into n parts such that k are required to reconstruct the original using the Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme.", "date_published": "2020-01-03T21:43:28+11:00", "external_url": "https://iancoleman.io/shamir/", "id": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2020/01/03/bookmark-shamir-secret-sharing-scheme", "tags": [ "bookmarks", "security", "tools", "mathematics", "video" ], "title": "Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme", "url": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2020/01/03/bookmark-shamir-secret-sharing-scheme" }, { "_thumb": { "image": "https://tompaton.com/blog/content/2018/12/13/bookmark-toothpick-like-sequence-exploration/thumb.jpeg" }, "attachments": [ { "mime_type": "text/x.cached.html", "title": "cached", "url": "cached/oeis.org/A139250/a139250.anim.html" } ], "content_html": "
These are some pretty neat patterns.
via Numberphile
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\n\nKnuth on possible future changes to TeX and METAFONT: \"Let us regard these systems as fixed points, which should give the same results 100 years from now that they produce today.\"
\n\nFollowing 3.0, Knuth wanted point release updates to follow the progression of \u03c0 (the current version is 3.14159265). Knuth also declared that on his death, the version number should be permanently set to \u03c0. \u201cFrom that moment on,\u201d he ordained \u201call \u2018bugs\u2019 will be permanent \u2018features.\u2019\u201d", "date_published": "2017-10-20T14:30:23+11:00", "external_url": "http://www.practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-lead-and-black-art.html", "id": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2017/10/20/bookmark-from-boiling-lead-and-black-art-an-essay-on-the-history-of-mathematical-typography", "tags": [ "bookmarks", "mathematics" ], "title": "From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography", "url": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2017/10/20/bookmark-from-boiling-lead-and-black-art-an-essay-on-the-history-of-mathematical-typography" }, { "attachments": [ { "mime_type": "text/x.cached.html", "title": "cached", "url": "cached/oeis.org/A000002.html" } ], "content_text": "Including this interesting self-referential one - the Kolakoski sequence.", "date_published": "2017-07-29T20:52:14+10:00", "external_url": "http://oeis.org/A000002", "id": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2017/07/29/bookmark-the-on-line-encyclopedia-of-integer-sequences", "tags": [ "bookmarks", "mathematics" ], "title": "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences", "url": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2017/07/29/bookmark-the-on-line-encyclopedia-of-integer-sequences" }, { "attachments": [ { "mime_type": "text/x.cached.html", "title": "cached", "url": "cached/www.omnimagazine.com/archives/interviews/feynman/index.html" } ], "content_text": "An Omni magazine interview with Richard Feynman.", "date_published": "2017-07-20T22:44:34+10:00", "external_url": "http://www.omnimagazine.com/archives/interviews/feynman/index.html", "id": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2017/07/20/bookmark-richard-feynman-on-the-true-meaning-of-physics", "tags": [ "bookmarks", "richard-feynman", "physics", "mathematics" ], "title": "Richard Feynman on The True Meaning of Physics", "url": "https://tompaton.com/blog/2017/07/20/bookmark-richard-feynman-on-the-true-meaning-of-physics" } ], "title": "tompaton.com/blog - Posts tagged with mathematics", "user_comment": "This feed allows you to read the posts from this site in any feed reader that supports the JSON Feed format. To add this feed to your reader, copy the following URL \u2014 https://tompaton.com/blog/feed.json \u2014 and add it your reader.", "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1" }