Scale Of The Universe

Great flash website that shows the scale of the universe.

Vi Hart

An interesting article on Vi Hart.

Also check out her blog for more cool, math videos.

NetCalc

NetCalc.org is a prototype web-based graphic calculator aiming to provide advanced mathematical functionality. Functions can be viewed graphically, in table form and as a summary of area and mean values.

Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed an innovative theory of roughness and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.

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Check out Skytopia's website for 3D Mandelbrot fractals.

Simpsons Math

I just came across this awesome website dedicated to all the math trivia found in The Simpsons TV show.

P vs. NP

According to Vinay Deolalikar a research scientist at HP Labs, P is not equal to NP.

His preliminary manuscript can be found here.

Sorting Algorithms

My last post on sorting algorithms had static displays. This site shows animations for all the different sorts.

Sortvis

Sortvis is a sorting algorithm visualization project.

Click here for more information and to download the code.

XKCD Cartoon - 3x9

Tell Me A Joke

The Wolfram|Alpha search engine returns a different mathematical joke for a "Tell me a joke" query.

Martin Gardner: 1914-2010

Martin Gardner, a prolific writer and popularizer of mathematics, and one of the most influential figures in skepticism passed away on Saturday, May 22, 2010.

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NIST Releases Successor to Venerable Handbook of Math Functions

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF) and its printed companion, the NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, the much-anticipated successors to the agency's most widely cited publication of all time. These reference works contain a comprehensive set of tools useful for specialists who work with mathematical modeling and computation.

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No 'Simple Theory of Everything'

The "exceptionally simple theory of everything," proposed by a surfing physicist in 2007, does not hold water, says Emory mathematician Skip Garibaldi.

Garibaldi, a rock climber in his spare time, did the math to disprove the theory, which involves a mysterious structure known as E8. The resulting paper, co-authored by physicist Jacques Distler of the University of Texas, will appear in an upcoming issue of Communications in Mathematical Physics.

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Happy π Day!

Today is π Day. Google even changed their logo to promote that.

JSLab PlotTool

A graph plotting tool made entirely in JavaScript. It uses no graphics and the generated source code is W3C compliant.

Currently real valued functions of one variable and parameter functions for plane curves are supported. You can plot using a variety of options like line resolution and axis dimensions. The first beta also adds support for limited zoom functionality. As the graph is computed real time there is no limit for the zoom level.