Comments on: Well, it makes me go wow at least.

Well, it makes me go wow at least.

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 02:36:00 -0800

Math that makes you go wow: A multi-disciplinary exploration of non-orientable surfaces.

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:19:19 -0800

This is exactly what I needed today - a very long and interesting read. Cheers stavros.

By: nofundy

nofundy — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:50:36 -0800

My favorite beverage from a Klein bottle. Yum! [Snaps] for stavros.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:26:48 -0800

Here's just the thing for your morning coffee/tea, nofundy. You've been posting some awesome links lately mr.wonderchicken - thanks.

By: LairBob

LairBob — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:34:44 -0800

It's apparently not quite a non-orientable surface, but there's apparently an awesome [Boing Boing]new playground climber that definitely recalls that little fable they've got on this site. Very cool link.

By: Zonker

Zonker — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:49:21 -0800

MathGeekFilter! (And yes, that's a good thing.) Great link, Stav, many thanks.

By: mischief

mischief — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 06:23:22 -0800

Wow! (I did recursion; I couldn't resist.)

By: mischief

mischief — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 06:25:06 -0800

dig^ Sheesh, I need coffee.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:08:41 -0800

Great stuff -- makes me nostalgic for my long-gone days as an apprentice mathematician. (I loved the useless stuff like topology and number theory, they wanted me to take calculus and more calculus, so I decamped for the more welcoming shores of the languages department.) I particularly enjoyed the section on one of my favorite novels, Nabokov's The Gift -- I'll have to read it again with this in mind. Thanks, stav!

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:37:06 -0800

My pleasure. The math geek lives on within me too, buried deep as he is.

By: snarfodox

snarfodox — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:05:01 -0800

languagehat> I loved the useless stuff like topology and number theory languagehat: I'm stabbing your effigy with pins. In a nice way.

By: fold_and_mutilate

fold_and_mutilate — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 00:31:08 -0800

languagehat> I loved the useless stuff like topology and number theory I've felt the same way (and no doubt Harding would have agreed with us both), but those nice folks at RSA Systems might dissent....along with scientists looking at the rather startling possible connections between the nontrivial Riemann zeta zeros and certain phenomenom of quantum physics (energy eigenvalues).

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 06:42:52 -0800

I should clarify: I'm not saying that stuff was actually useless, it's just that all my life I've only been interested in what I perceived as useless (ancient Greek, Indo-European linguistics, the New York Mets, &c). If I had discovered that physicists could make use of the obscure theoretical math I was cramming my brain with, I would immediately have lost interest. snarfodox: Ow! Quit that!