Tuesday 24 May 2011

Anti-Maths of the day No.1

Statistics-need i say more

Monday 23 May 2011

maths of the day No. 6

Imaginary numbers

I chose them because they cause mega confusion and yet are much more useful then you could ever imagine. (But then again if you've got as far as imagining root -1maybe you can imagine anything)

Saturday 21 May 2011

Maths (based) challenge of the week No.1

The answer will come at some point next weekend

Why is x used to represent the unknown? (x-rays, planet x etc. are all phrases that were coined at a much later date)

Friday 20 May 2011

maths of the day No.6

One, two, skip a few, 99, 100

You may have thought that this was one of the greatest things from your childhood, but for some amazonian tribes even this maths is too complex. Their numbers are 1,2 and many. Even the tribe members that have been taught numbers in other languages may be able to count but they still can't do simple addition.

This isn't as weird as it sounds because it turns out that the natural brain doesn't have a very good capacity for western mathematics and actually works in terms of ratios. More fruit on that tree, less sabre tooth tigers behind than in front etc.

Thursday 19 May 2011

Maths of the day No.5

Question 11 i) on the C1 paper.

I thought that the question was harder than one would expect in C1 but accessible once you applied the knowledge that was required.

(The irony is that this post is being written on Tuesday and scheduled for Thursday.)

Good luck in the C2 and FP1 papers tomorrow.

(Or if you have hacked my account the C1 paper tomorrow)

Wednesday 18 May 2011

Maths of the day No.4

The fact that 1+1=2

The basic axioms of mathematics are taken for granted and this causes le moutarde me montre au nez* (insert accents) . These are the axioms that were created (without realisation) from observations in the real world and it is for these reasons that mathematics is the language that describes the universe.

*this cause the mustard to climb up my nose- this angers me (french gcse idiom)

Good luck in the C1 paper today

Tuesday 17 May 2011

Maths of the day No.3

pythagoras' theorem

much simpler than fermat's last theorem and much easier to proove

infact here are 93 proofs.

Sunday 15 May 2011

Maths of the day No.2

Gödel's incompleteness theorem

Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true, but not provable in the theory.

What this effectively means is that there will always be a true but unprovable statement within any system of mathematics. 

What is so amazing about the statement is that someone was able to prove it!


Saturday 14 May 2011

Maths of the day (and an undisclosed length of time longer) No.1

As most people will know I have exams coming up and so blogging is not at the forefront of my mind

I have decided to take a leaf out of Benji's book (sorry about the colour of the link for some reason i can't change the background)

The first piece of maths has to be Fermat's Last theorem:

It is impossible to separate a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into two fourth powers, or in general, any power higher than the second, into two like powers. I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain.

For those of you doing Latin:

Cubum autem in duos cubos, aut quadratoquadratum in duos quadratoquadratos, et generaliter nullam in infinitum ultra quadratum potestatem in duos eiusdem nominis fas est dividere cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet. 

 night night x

Tuesday 10 May 2011

I get the fake cake

I win the cake :)

The evil procrastination monster has been drawn.

Picture the scene:

3 hours into maths mocks and I should have been doing the final bit of checking. BUT NO. The temptation to doodle struck me like a kick to the gonads. My pen, no longer being controlled by my logical brain, began to doodle.

To cut a long story short I doodled a face on my calculator. I thought it was only fitting that he should be drawn by procrastination and so his face was found.

Then it struck me. He has a striking resemblance with a certain fictional character


Captain hook has a moustache.
Captain hook has a hook.
Peter Pan procrastinates about growing up. (could this have been hooks main aim?)
His nemesis is a crocodile who has swallowed a clock. (if you are currently laughing immaturely re-read)

and Captain cook once had sex withBanned due to super injunction.

So with exams coming up Be wary, Be warned, Be revising foo'. *multiple cringes*

Go to bed early and remember

The walls have Moustaches (auto correct would like this to be mustache)

Sunday 8 May 2011

COP OUT :) (real post soon)

Toby!

Rory!

Tardis!

Classic Matt Smith.

Why haven't I posted yet? I've been procrastinating.

All shall be explained.


Au revoir, mes petites choufleurs

Monday 2 May 2011

What a weekend

Greatest weekend since a certain small step for man and a giant leap for manking? I'd say so. Perhaps greater? I'd say a much less confident so.

It goes like this: (insert dayeinu before every comma)

 
leave school (in the sunshine), eat cereal(in the sunshine), walk to park (see it's already as good as the moon landings), play frisbee(in the sunshine), get on bus(in the sunshine), watch thor(unfortunately inside), profess hatred of 3d glasses, eat chicken, eat some more chicken, eat burger surrounding chicken, get back on bus(it was dark), PLAY NIGHT FRISBEE(unfortunately not in sunshine otherwise it would have been the greatest game of pitch black frisbee ever), sleep.


Wake up, hear tv, see Royal wedding (damn she's fit) (damn her sisters fit), eat cheese toastie, play frisbee, hurt back, keep playing frisbee, sit with ice cube prodding into back, play mario kart, lose at mario kart, friday night dinner, eat brownies, help grandma deal with vicious politicians (shul leadership)

DON'T YOU DARE GET BORED AND STOP READING


Wake up, learn the vicious politicians had surrendered, heal back, receive portal, be unable to play portal, free gift from fifa ultimate team, Ed Kate's party, drink pimms, drink pimms, drink pimms.

Get embarrassed by Benji in cab ( I do not believe that a cab driver wants to know that our headmaster likes...), get free gift from fifa ultimate team,  sleep, wake up, play portal, play portal, play portal, play portal, play fifa lol jk portal, watch dr who (still as shit as it has been for the last year but with just as amazing cliff hangers as ever), watch arsenal beat the Mancswho miraculously returned home very quickly after leaving the stadium (which is in london), think that we should be one point ahead, laugh at the MUTV schedule (match day review) , work, tutor, watch tv, sleep.

IF YOU HAVE BEEN ASLEEP YOU CAN WAKE UP AGAIN NOW


wake up, OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD, conspire some theories, reject the theories, OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEFINITELY DEAD, (please read the previous line while watching this), finish portal, walk dog, tutor, watch Norwich get promoted at the same time as John Higgins wins the snooker world championship, write blog.

I had planned this post to be about the royal wedding but in comparison to the weekend it really does only deserve the small mention it got.

What an image

And to leave you with  a taster for next week "stay hooked'