Musings of a Budding String Theorist
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While I realize that some just aren’t ‘gifted’ in mathematics, and the author is cracking down too hard at people who aren’t inherently good/don’t enjoy math-
I still found this hilarious, and a great read.
I want to say this to the next person who says “Math Sucks/I Hate Math” when I tell them how much I love math. This entire thing. Or maybe just “Math doesn’t suck, you do.”
Wonderful post.
From The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I: Mainly Mechanics, Radiation, and Heat
Thank you so much, everyone! I really appreciate your support.
Oh, and gobbldygook: it is truly as wonderful as it sounds. I can’t stop reading it, and even though much of the first volume (mechanics) is merely review, the way he describes it and delves into the applications of certain laws made me begin reading from his introductory definitions of velocity and momentum!
The ceremony was lovely; a few of our student musicians played exquisitely, and I got my diploma in a fancy display book. I also, somehow, managed to walk off with a math award (which was conveyed in the form of Professor Stewart’s Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities, by Ian Stewart), and a science award (which they had to give to myself and another student, because she’s a beast at biology and chemistry), in the form of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. No, I shit you not: The FEYNMAN LECTURES ON PHYSICS: THE NEW MILLENNIUM EDITION,VOLUMES 1-3. My physics teacher might be an asshole of a teacher, but he’s the most awesome asshole of a teacher under whom I’ve had the pleasure of learning.
My family got me a bunch of wonderful, lovely gifts, and I got to have a small dinner out with my family (Sylvie included). All in all, a pretty great day. :)
So, this is what the last day of high school feels like? Huh.
You’re in high school?! I thought you were in college!
Nope! I can see why you’d get that impression, though. x3
By the way, I finished Extremely Loud… yesterday! I must agree with you, the chapters written from the grandparents’ perspectives were the most gripping, but I loved the book in its entirety. Near the end, I wanted to stop reading (I’d never been brought near tears from a book before), but it was truly beautiful, and I enjoyed it more than I had ever anticipated. Thank you so, so much. ^_^
I’m surprisingly indifferent about it. Just bought The Book of Disquiet and a book on introductory topology; they bring me more excitement than the silly ceremony.
May 17, 1866: Erik Satie is born.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
(via violent-buddhist)
What if materials could defy gravity, so that we could leave them suspended in mid-air? ZeroN is a physical and digital interaction element that floats and moves in space by computer-controlled magnetic levitation.
by Jinha Lee, in collaboration with Rehmi Post, and Hiroshi Ishii
leejinha.com/zeron
tangible.media.mit.edu
(via cosmosplasma)
