Articles Tagged with mathematics

Make mistakes. And then-

Published on May 21, 2019May 19, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Next steps

You have to start and also continue.

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Science is big

Published on May 7, 2019May 7, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Collecting the tools

What you need to learn before starting your research gets larger all the time.

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Don’t know much geometry (II)

Published on April 9, 2019April 8, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Stuff I learned in school

More reasons for apparently useless subjects.

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Making a drawing (I)

Published on March 26, 2019March 26, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

The importance of the rough sketch

Sometimes, the rougher the better.

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What is your name?

Published on February 5, 2019February 6, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Power and placeholders

We point out a difference between mathematics and magic.

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The narrative imperative

Published on January 29, 2019January 28, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Telling the story

We notice that novel-writing and movie-making are different from Physics and History.

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Students return (II)

Published on January 8, 2019January 6, 2019 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Unintended consequences

We find, again, that the message we thought we sent is not always what was received.

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Is this always true?

Published on December 11, 2018December 10, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Absolute truths

Some questions are very difficult to answer, even if you know the answer.

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Ghosts of future theories

Published on December 3, 2018December 4, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Magnetic monopoles

We know a great deal about things that may not exist.

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It doesn’t look right

Published on November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 by fivecolorssandt@icloud.com

Finding mistakes

Our tutor ponders techniques he employs unconsciously.

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