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now i know why i was horrible at math
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:21 pm
by vynsane
Re: now i know why i was horrible at math
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:45 am
by kidhuman
My head hurts after reading that
Re: now i know why i was horrible at math
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:14 am
by Ran
Way back in the day when I had a IBM 386, I used to have a screen saver with those things on it.
Re: now i know why i was horrible at math
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:29 am
by vynsane
this is currently my desktop, because they're called 'julia sets' or 'juila islands' and that's my daughter's name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mande ... slands.jpg
also, i'm intrigued how similar the center of each of those spirals looks to the
crown chakra and if that's coincidence, influence of culture on the mathematician that 'designed' it or if there is some underlying movement towards spiritualism in the science/math world.
Re: now i know why i was horrible at math
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:48 am
by anarky
A friend of mine who was a math wizard (and is now a professor, in fact) once simplified chaos theory for me by explaining it as a theory that inherently disproves itself but looks pretty when you graph it.
