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Tag: Mathematics

Your New Favorite Number: Part 3

Cover Image: Lilly Guilbeault, April 2026 By: Flore Devernay, Contributing Writer In 1608, Peter Roth published Arithmetica Philosophica, where he … More

4D rotations, Apollo 1, artistry, division, divisors, gimbal, i, imaginary, j, k, math, Mathematics, negatives, numbers, perfect, positives, proof, quaternion, real, rotation, satellites, space landing, square root, unit vectors

Your new favorite number: Part 2

Cover Image: Lilly Guilbeault, March 2026 By: Flore Devernay, Contributing Writer We’ve all had to endure the excruciatingly painful task … More

bees, culture, division, divisors, factorial, hexagon, honeycomb, luck, math, Mathematics, negatives, nothing, numbers, perfect, positives, proof, realms, rules, six, triangle, triangular, wax

Your new favorite number: Part 1

Cover Image: Lilly Guilbeault, March 2026 By: Flore Devernay, Contributing Writer We’ve all had to endure the excruciatingly painful task … More

binary, math, Mathematics, negatives, nothing, numbers, positives, proof, rules, Zero

Infinity Series II: Zero volume with infinite surface area

Ascending and Descending (M. C. Escher, Lithograph, 1960). This is the second entry of the “Infinity Series”, which will introduce … More

Infinity, Mathematics, McGill, Menger Sponge, Shunsuke Katayama

Infinity Series I: Finite area with infinite perimeter

This is the first entry of the “Infinity Series”, which will introduce you to the peculiar world of infinity. Today, … More

Infinity, Koch Snowflake, Mathematics, McGill, MSURJ, Shunsuke Katayama

You are an eggplant (Q.E.D.)

I will now prove that you are an eggplant. Let We have that We can also conclude that Subtracting the … More

Eggplant, Mathematics, McGill, Shunsuke Katayama, Zero

Black holes and dinosaurs

So the last topic was on the idea of infinity (remember that we have to be careful about infinity – … More

Black Holes, Dinosaurs, Mathematics, McGill, MSURJ, Physics, Shunsuke Katayama

What is infinity?

To read more by Shunsuke: http://msurjblog.com/author/shunsukekatayama/ “I love you to infinity”, “I love you to infinity plus one”, “I love you … More

Inifinity, Mathematics, McGill, MSURJ, Shunsuke Katayama

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