Happy Pi Day!

The digits of Pi mapped to notes in a melody, played on the piano. Visit the official Pi Day website for more fun Pi stuff.

Musical math theater

Mathamaniacs rejoice! You too can enjoy a slice of the musical theater pi. Calculus: The Musical promises an infinitely good time. Derive pleasure by indulging in all your singing, dancing and calculating urges. Integrate this mathical into your schedule. Even advanced mathematicians will find that it meets the measure. It's wonders are too many to enumerate.

Thought for the day

Old mathematicians never die; they just lose some of their functions.

Completing the set

Just for klw1026 and Sugar³, a green eyed lion. Well, actually a green eyed kitty with a lion haircut, and looking none too happy about it, but at least I tried.

More unintentionally hilarious lion kitty pictures here.

More Mobius

August Ferdinand Mobius was born on November 17, 1790. He is best known for his co-discovery of the Mobius strip and as a pioneer in Topology, which Sugar³ is studying at present.

If you haven't already, check out yesterday's post featuring a cool video of Mobius Transformations.

Pretty math

Sugar³ often discusses Mobius Transformations but CrackedPot found them hard to visualize. This video not only shows how it works, but makes it beautiful.

It's all relative

One of Sugar³'s favorite quotes:

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

~ Albert Einstein

"What's your sine?"

CrackedPot overheard this bad math pick-up line while at dinner the other night with Sugar³ and several of his math friends, "Can I get your integral because I want to know the area under your curve."

Perhaps the speaker would have had better luck with, "I don't have a perfect pick-up line that'll get you to take me home, but I can prove that one exists."

Or they could look here or here for inspiration.

Asteroids = Donuts

Math geek humor from the Sugar³: A topologist is a person who can't tell a teacup from a donut. What CrackedPot wants to know is why anyone would want to mangle a delicate teacup when they can use the old classic video arcade game, Asteroids, as a topological donut analogy?