MetaFilter posts tagged with equations

Bad Maxwell

Confess, Fletch — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:21:17 -0800

kliuless — Fri, 01 May 2009 06:42:19 -0800

Stephen Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine - at the same time Google Adds Search to Public Data, viz: "Nobody really paid attention to the two hour snorecast" -- like a cross between designing for big data and a glossary of game theory terms -- on Wolfram|Alpha (previously), yet the veil is being lifted nonetheless: "[on] a platonic search engine, unearthing eternal truths that may never have been written down before," cf. hunch & cyc (and in other startup news...) [via] *boiling it down to that which can be computed (about the world)

Bango Skank — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:39:01 -0800

morenewmath.com = pithy definitions + equations

Wolfdog — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:49:48 -0800

Texify is a pretty convenient web-based way to typeset LaTeX equations (and get a linkable image).

plep — Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:59:41 -0800

Famous Curves. Safe for work.

bluno — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 15:46:50 -0800

The Lizzie Method : 16-year-old Elizabeth Seagle figured out a better way of factoring quadratic equations. What do the Me-Fi mathematicians think? Will it be taught in future textbooks? Personally, I never touch the stuff.

walrus — Sun, 23 Mar 2003 10:56:23 -0800

Webcalc solves over 100 different equations online.

none — Sun, 27 Jan 2002 05:31:54 -0800

The End of equations? Paul Dirac and Albert Einstein thought equations were things of beauty, Stephen Wolfram, by contrast thinks they are antiquated.