Deriving and Understanding Binet’s Formula for the Fibonacci Sequence The Fibonacci Sequence is one of the cornerstones of the math world. Fibonacci initially came up with the sequence in order to model the…
Things Themselves are Numbers: Contemporary Pythagoreanism In some simple sense, mathematics may be viewed as simply an extremely useful tool. John D. Barrow however, holds a slightly different…
Bayes’ Theorem and (Corona-) Virus Testing With the current Corona Crisis going on the world, many people demand more testing. But from a mathematical point of view, just randomly (!!) testing more is not the answer. The problem here lies within the false positives that may occur when two very unlikely events are highly correlated.
Let’s Derive the Ideal Gas Law from Scratch! With nothing but a good model, a few definitions, and some math, we’ll derive a fundamental relationship of chemistry.
Emmy Noether and One of the Deepest Observations in All of Physics The Correspondence Between Symmetry and Conservation Laws
Factorials and How to Compute Them I am sure you all remember the surprise you had the first time you saw a “5!” or “7!”
The Cycle Double Cover Conjecture Delving into a deceptively simple-sounding problem that has gone unsolved for decades.