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)
Inside a Neutron Star
Credit: Karl Tate, via SPACE.com
(via This infographic from 1897 show the entire American Civil War on a single map - Geoawesomeness)
InfoVis is definitely not a new thing
The relationship between sine and cosine.
If you like this check out “How a Fourier series approximates a square wave.”
Title: Islandia
Map Maker: Abraham Ortelius
Place / Date: Antwerp / 1603
This map shows the percent of residents of each state who own passports.
On the back roads of Glacier National Park, Montana With Andrea
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