Mathematics and life

I have slept through my springtime sleepiness, and am noticing things are settling into their warm-weather demeanor. The afternoon is sunny in a way that just doesn’t happen in January, regardless of the presence or lack of clouds. What is up with the world? I read earlier in the print edition of the WSJ that Continue reading Mathematics and life

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To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature … If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. — Richard Feynman

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from quotes of the day – qotd.org Now one may ask, “What is mathematics doing in a physics lecture?” We have several possible excuses: first, of course, mathematics is an important tool, but that would only excuse us for giving the formula in two minutes. On the other hand, in theoretical physics we discover that Continue reading qotd