matthen:

Splitting up complex skeletons (red) into their constituent parts (blue). [code]

If you wantonly divide by zero, you can destroy the entire foundation of logic and mathematics.

matthen:

A chaotic pattern from stirring one liquid on the surface of another.  As the liquids mix, the concentration fits a Gamma distribution.  That is the same distribution that can model total rainfall in a reservoir, the average load on a web-server, and the size of insurance claims. [source]

matthen:

Carl Friedrich Gauss just signed my Tumblr! I just made this animation tracing out a copy of Gauss’s signature he wrote in a book when he was 17. Quite fantastic and elaborate! Perhaps he just wanted to make it difficult for me. Gauss is somewhat of a legend in the history of maths. Reblog this and he’ll be signing your blog too! [original]

scienceisbeauty:

Water Lilies by Roger Johnston. Flaming fractals differ from classic IFS by using nonlinear update functions (sinusoidal, spherical, swirl, horseshoe), using a log-density display to color pixels according to how many times they result in the process, and incorporating color based on which rule was applied to get to that point.

Source (Introduction to Programming in Java), Princeton University Computer Science Department

Each tree had 56 oranges. If 8 slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?

matthen:

If you roll a circle inside one 3 times its size, it will actually trace out a 4 pointed star shape called an Astroid (this shape is traced out in the animation in orange).  But what if inside the smaller circle, there is an even smaller one tracing out a smaller Astroid?  This animation shows the intricate shape that is generated by adding the effects of all the Astroids.  [code] [also]

nevver:

Meet the Numbers

blua:

Cambridge University is putting the papers of Sir Isaac Newton online for the first time, including his own annotated copy of his greatest work, Principia Mathematica, with notes and calculations in his handwriting revising the book and answering critic 

(via fuckyeahmath)

(via fuckyeahmath)