Peter Rowlett* * corresponding author The emerging field of duck physics offers a theoretical exploration of the standard model of particle physics and its implications for ducks. This review takes a chronological approach and documents early developments of this exciting new discipline. The field of duck physics promises interesting results for ducks and has already…
Sage launches an interactive demos site
The people behind the free and open source computer maths system Sage have opened a new site called interact.sagemath.org, containing interactive demos of things you can do with Sage.
Interesting Esoterica Summation, volume 4
Dust off your thinking hat and do some mind-stretches because here’s another course of Interesting Maths Esoterica! It’s been several months since the last volume so this is quite a big post. I won’t mind if you skim it. In case you’re new to this: every now and then I encounter a paper or a book…
Open Access Round Up
The march of the righteous towards victory over the rent-seeking publishers continues apace, so here’s another Open Access round up. I’m not even going to bother trying to remain impartial any more, for the following reasons:
Ready: reaction-diffusion simulator
Google Code, one of now approximately a million different websites which start with the word Google, is a sharing platform for developers to exchange open-source programs and nifty things they have made. One such nifty thing is this Reaction-Diffusion package, based on our old friend Alan Turing’s famous equation. The reaction-diffusion equation, originally given in…
‘RightingBot’ simulates the way lizards right themselves when falling
Lizards, just like cats, have a knack for landing on their feet when they fall. But unlike cats, which twist and bend their torsos to turn in the air, lizards swing their large tails one way to rotate their body the other, according to a recent study. And the longer the tail, the smaller the…
Colors of Math, a documentary movie
Have a look at this trailer for a new film about maths: