Fibonacci in Lateralus
This one is courtesy of my friend Tom. The song Lateralus by Tool is based on the Fibonacci sequence.
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Fermi Problems
Geoff Canyon has a post about Google's tricky interview questions. Microsoft is also known for asking these kind of questions during interviews, and you can run into them anywhere in the technical world. Also known as Fermi problems or back-of-the-envelope calculations, I ran into these a lot during college because
The Long View: Is Mathematics Constitutional?
A recent popular [well, as popular as a massive book full of equations can be] exposition of mathematical Platonism is Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality. It even has practice problems in it with devoted communities of amateurs trading tips on how to solve them. Mathematical Platonism, or something much
The Long View: The Stopping Problem
This was the first thing I ever paid John for. He had a Paypal donate button on his site, and I paid him $5 for this short story. This is on my short list of favorite works by John Reilly.
John had a fascination with Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem, the Turing
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