Notneimanmarcus - Seriously Though. It Isn't.

A mathematics course is much more than a thrice-weekly regurgitation of algorithmic tools. It is a distilled presentation of centuries of concentrated effort by fellow humans, men and women motivated both by real-world problems and a sense of beauty and consistency

Charles Doran (via ixxra)

You know, many people think that mathematics is so complicated. This is wrong. Mathematics is an extremely simple approximation of the world. The world itself is more complicated than anything we can think of.

Cédric Villani, 2010 Fields Medal winner for “his work on developing equations to describe the movement of gas and plasma” [Science Show] (via we-are-star-stuff)

as seen here in katherines and paper towns, you are very opinionated on subdivisions. what are your feelings about them and why?

I really hated subdivisions as a teenager because to me they represented sameness and the bloated, intellectually disengaged, wretchedly average 21st century America.

I felt like all these identical houses were architectural crimes committed against the land, and like we would pay for our crimes with these stretched out, sprawling cities that human beings of the future would see as proof of the insanity that accompanied our national prosperity.

Now I live in that very suburbia. So….yeah.

From the coldest cold to the hottest hot, here’s all the universe’s temperatures.

(from BBC Future)

Bonus question: What is hotter, a boiling tea kettle or an iceberg?

(via This infographic from 1897 show the entire American Civil War on a single map - Geoawesomeness)

InfoVis is definitely not a new thing

I made a gif animation of the Binomial Cube. :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_sensorial_materials

http://hyrodium.tumblr.com/post/85901458594/do-you-know-the-maria-montessori-method-of-education

Eleven Interactive Fractals in 2D & 3D