July 12, 2009
In response to my post on the WSJ's recent randomness article, B emailed me the following (reproduced here with permission): The quoted WSJ article writes "We find false meaning in the patterns of randomness for good reason: we are animals built to do just that… Many studies illustrate how this basic aspect of human nature [...]
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May 28, 2009
Another excellent guest column by Steven Strogatz for the NYT Wild Side blog. The post delves into the mathematical beauty of the natural world, using love as a knowingly over-simplified metaphor. Although these examples are whimsical, the equations that arise in them are of the far-reaching kind known as differential equations. They represent the most [...]
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