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Need your brain scrambled? Here’s a list of logical and mathematical paradoxes

I’m not exactly sure how I ended up on the Wikipedia page listing dozens of paradoxes of infinity, but I did. And I read the whole damn thing and it kind of hurt my brain a little, so I thought I’d share.

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Know your awesome engineers of history: Charles Proteus Steinmetz The great mathematician and engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz, a contemporary of Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison stood only four feet tall and was crippled and bent by kyphosis but was a giant in his field. One day, when Henry Ford’s, electrical engineers couldn’t solve a problems they were having with a gigant generator,Ford called Steinmetz. Upon arriving, Steinmetz rejected all assistance and asked only for a notebook, pencil and cot. Steinmetz listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the notepad for two straight days and nights. On the second night, he asked for a ladder, climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Ford’s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection.Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice in the amount of $10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetz’s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an itemized bill. Steinmetz responded personally to Ford’s request with the following:Making chalk mark on generator $1. Knowing where to make mark $9,999. Ford paid the bill.

Know your awesome engineers of history: Charles Proteus Steinmetz

The great mathematician and engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz, a contemporary of Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison stood only four feet tall and was crippled and bent by kyphosis but was a giant in his field. One day, when Henry Ford’s, electrical engineers couldn’t solve a problems they were having with a gigant generator,Ford called Steinmetz. Upon arriving, Steinmetz rejected all assistance and asked only for a notebook, pencil and cot. Steinmetz listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the notepad for two straight days and nights. On the second night, he asked for a ladder, climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Ford’s skeptical engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil. They did, and the generator performed to perfection.
Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice in the amount of $10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetz’s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an itemized bill.

Steinmetz responded personally to Ford’s request with the following:
Making chalk mark on generator $1.

Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

Ford paid the bill.

It took one Japanese guy seven years to draw this “unsolvable” maze

Twitter user Kya7y recently posted a picture of a hand-drawn maze her dad made that took him seven years to complete. The maze has sparked interest from both the art world and the math world, because just look at it… it’s gorgeous and intriguing. Kya7y says her father claims the maze is unsolvable, but someone’s going to rig up some clever piece of technology that will solve it. Or not. Maybe a thousand years from now.

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How tall can you build a Lego tower before it crushes itself?

In the last few years, there have been some pretty tall Lego towers built, each one claiming the title of “world’s tallest”. How tall could you build a Lego tower before it’s crushed under it’s own weight? Pretty damn tall, actually. If you’re talking 2x2 bricks, you could get a tower over two miles high before the bottom Lego is destroyed.

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Vi Hart’s mathematical guide to holiday dinners

YouTuber ViHart uploaded these videos yesterday, but these mathematical foodstuffs will still be relevant come Christmas or Hanukkah.

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Will we ever run out of new music?

YouTuber Vsauce raises some food for thought— humans have been making music for almost our entire existence, there is only a finite range of notes that humans can hear and only a certain number of combinations (even if it it a huge number) in which those notes can be arranged. And today, we’re making more music than ever before, so will there come a point when we completely run out of new songs?

Well this is charming: Boy calls 911 for help with his math homework, cop is happy to help

A four year old boy, struggling with subtraction, calls 911 for help with his homework and the cop on the other end of the line is happy to help him. Listen to the very end…

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Understanding the Monty Hall problem

You’ve made it to the final round of a game show, and get to pick between 3 doors, one of which has a car behind it! You make your choice, and then the host decides to show you one of the wrong answers. He then offers you the chance to switch doors. Should you do it?

Anxiety about math can cause real, physical pain

Some people love math, but for many others, “hate” isn’t a strong enough word… something that causes fear and anxiety and even physical pain. Apparently, if you’re not a math person and you have to perform math in school for a test or something, that anxiety about mathematics can actually cause a physical pain response in the brain.

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Vi Hart drops some Halloween math all up in your face

YouTube vlogger Vi Hart has some Halloween geometry for you, with a bunch of candy corn and a skull.

Daily Discussion: Happy 10/11/12! What are some of your favorite numbers?

If you’re in a country where the date is written month/day/year, today is 10/11/12, a sequence that won’t happen again until November 12 of next year. Speaking of which, what are some of your favorite numbers?

Afternoon geometry: Vi Hart entertains with some hexaflexagons

So how much cash is in that giant pile in a storage locker in Breaking Bad?

At the end of the halfway point of this season of Breaking Bad, character Skyler White (Anna Gunn) takes her husband Walter (Bryan Cranston) to a storage locker, where she’s started storing all the money he’s been bringing in, because it’s way too much for her to launder through the car wash business.

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TED video of the day: How to prove a mathematical theory

TED Ed shows how mathematical theories are proven, and why it’s so incredibly important for math and science to be able to have a base of established data.




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