Hilbert’s Infinite Hotel

I’ve wanted to write a post about Hilbert’s Infinite Hotel paradox for quite a while now. But thanks to the amazing Ben Vitale, I don’t have to do that! I found this video on his blog. I honestly think there is no way I could have explained it any better. Also, here is a video about … Continue reading →

Newcomb’s Paradox

Let’s say that Yoda comes to visit you one day. He presents you with 2 closed boxes labelled “Box 1” and “Box 2”. Yoda tells you that Box 1 contains $1000. Box 2 either contains useless droid parts or a lightsaber that belongs to Luke Skywalker worth millions of dollars. You have 2 choices: Take … Continue reading →

The Most Beautiful Equation!

Isn’t this the prettiest thing you have ever seen?  I think it is! It unites the 5 most important symbols of Mathematics and it just look so cool! It is called the Euler’s Identity or Euler’s Equation, named for the Swiss-German mathematician Leonhard Euler. Its beauty lies in the the simplicity and the depth. You … Continue reading →

Why is Math So Hard??

Somebody showed this to me today and I just could not stop laughing. I know laughing at someone is not a nice thing to do, but watch the video and tell me you didn’t laugh! Also I do not mean to offend anyone, so if you are offended by this I apologize in advance!

Using Math to Prove God?

This morning I woke up to an email notification that I need to approve a comment on one of my posts. This is the comment from Neural Outlet: “I want to get a collections of the math associated to God: Attribute of infinities , golden ratio as his fingerprint, I think Euler’s Identity is something … Continue reading →

Quote Of The Week

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. – Euclid

Do Mathematicians Peak In Their Mid 20’s?

A famous mathematician, G. H. Hardy, wrote in his 1940 memoir, A Mathematician’s Apology, “No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man’s game.” For centuries it has been a commonly accepted belief that youth is most important ingredient for greatness in Mathematics. … Continue reading →

Methods of Teaching

I moved to US about 4 years ago. Raised in a “third-world country,” my expectations from a teacher were totally different from those of American students. You don’t interact with teachers per se; they talk and you listen. They tell you 2+2=4 and you are supposed to remember that. You can’t question why it isn’t … Continue reading →

Why The Tortoise Never Loses! (Zeno’s Paradoxes)

Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Almost everything that we know about Zeno is from Plato’s Parmenides. From there we know that he was close to Parmenides (Plato reports the gossip that they were lovers when Zeno was young), and that he wrote a book of paradoxes defending Parmenides’ philosophy. Since his book … Continue reading →

Happy Pi Day!

Today, 3.14, is being celebrated as Pi Day. It was created by Larry Shaw in 1988. It is also Albert Einstein’s birthday today, so happy birthday buddy. To celebrate Pi Day, I’ll share a poem, Pi, written by Polish poet and winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, Wisława Szymborska. Here it goes: The admirable number … Continue reading →