tingilinde

seen today

 

log (😅) = 💧log(😄)

 

an unusual medalist

Anna Kiesenhofer won an upset victory in women's road racing. Such victories happen every now and again, but Dr Kiesenhofer is a mathematician doing active research in partial differential equations at the University of Lausanne.

 

a music school on easter island

NPR's Tiny Desk (Home) Concert features pianist Mahani Teave of Easter Island and the music school they've built.

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And yes, classical music thrives there – thanks largely to Mahani Teave, the pianist who offers this engaging performance from the music school she co-founded. As a child, Teave saw the first piano brought to the island in 1992 and dreamed of becoming a world-class concert pianist. It was a dream she fulfilled, but just as she was poised to launch her international career, an even stronger dream tugged at her heart.

In 2014, she broke ground on the Toki School of Music, aiming to teach traditional and classical music to Easter Island's children. Constructed from over 2,500 used tires and 60,000 cans and bottles, the building, with its cisterns and solar power, is a testament to Teave's vision for sustainability.

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inspired fonts

This is fun - mathematically inspired fonts.

 

an old way to get the volume of a sphere

solids of constant width

betty moore shannon

Claude Shannon's wife was also a mathematician.

a tip of the hat to Jim

 

the art of chalkboards

Probably a fun book

 

 

what data can't do

Commentary by Hannah Fry on two books on the subject.  (via The New Yorker)

 

 

 

numberphile on fluids

Numberphile often gives intuitive tastes of math and related subjects that often require serious work in college.  Here's a fine three part series featuring Tom Crawford of Oxford.   A nice example of equation → approximation → real world example (with more approximations) 

 

The Navier-Stokes Equation

The Reynolds Number



River Water