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UW – A Mythical Beast
O this is the creature that has never been. They never knew it, yet none the less It’s motion, its bearing and slender neck. Crowned by the gleam of its still gaze – they loved it. Indeed it never ‘was’. Yet because they loved it A pure creature was born. They always left room. And…
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Copernicus – A Brief Look
Born Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543) was a Polish astronomer who first presented the idea that the planets revolve around the sun, not earth, as was the belief of the time. There is ample information on this individual and I would be selling him short referring to him being an astronomer. As he is so…
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Johannes Kepler
Kepler achieved much in his lifetime, from theories on geometry, astrology and cosmology, to making progress in such areas as science and mathematics, optics, the discovery of two new polyhedra, work on the golden ratio and theories on the packing of spheres. Kepler is mostly remembered for his three laws of planetary motion but he…
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Blenkinsop (The Fat)
Have you ever found a book from your childhood that made you laugh? I unfortunately came across one such item, and it had so many bad jokes, this was a poem that for some reason used to make my child brain convulse with laughter. I warn you, it is very stupid. Just thought I would…
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Gimme That Stat!
The Symmetry that exists within statistics can be represented by the familiar bell curve that represent a class of statistical distributions referred to as normal distributions. The mathematical equation for determining normal statistics lies in the idea that normal is based on the range of measurements that occur in nature. The symmetrical nature of the…
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Mathematical Objects
The five point design found at the centre of an apple has what is referred to as mirror symmetry but also interestingly enough, it has properties of what is called rotational symmetry. What this basically means is that if you were to find a perfect shape in that form, it could be rotated 72 degrees…
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Sierpinski’s Triangle
Mandelbrot’s Fractals will be familiar to a few of you from a piece I did a while ago, this short piece will cover a small aspect of something similar called Sierpinski’s triangle. What is the triangle and how does it work? Simply put it is an easily constructed form of fractal, one that is recursive…
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Tycho Brahe
In keeping with the theme of geometry and measurements, we now explore an influential person on a character we will study later, that person being specifically in this context, Johannes Kepler. A name which may be familiar to some, and to others, not so much. This individual goes by the name Tycho Brahe. Who Was…
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Measurements & Geometry
The Ishango bone which has tally marks grouped in such a way that they appear to have been used for calculations is an example of what is called discrete mathematics and deals specifically with quantities that can be counted, now while this may seem confusing at first, you will understand the difference between discrete and…
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About Language
This post follows a conversation I had on a recent blog post about a person who claims to have learned four languages, many people in modern times are looking for anything, any trait, any quality that differentiates them from the crowd, throw a stone in a crowd and you will hit the head of someone…
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