Math and Physics

Some articles of interest, started on July 15, 2025, updated on July 15, 2025.

Here are some links to articles related to math and physics that looked interesting to me. I have not read most of them, and many are behind paywalls. 

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Math, Revealed: Bowling for Nobels. How a centuries-old math puzzle helped us see inside the human brain. Steven Strogatz, The New York Times, June 30, 2025.

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Math, Revealed: Let’s Get Packing! How bees, beer cans and big data all solve the same problem: not enough space. Steven Strogatz, The New York Times, June 23, 2025.

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Math, Revealed: Navel Gazing and the Golden Ratio. What an apple, a pentagram and a belly button have in common. Steven Strogatz, The New York Times, June 16, 2025.

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Math, Revealed: Taxicab Geometry. Welcome to a city where pi equals 4 and circles aren’t round. Steven Strogatz, The New York Times, June 9, 2025.

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Why on Earth Does 0!=1? Here are several ways to make sense of this unintuitive fact. Harlan Brothers, Medium, July 8, 2025.

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Physics Made Easy — Demystifying the Euler Lagrange Equation. Ameh Emmanuel Sunday, Medium, June 27, 2025.

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Random Variables & Probability Distributions explained. Intuition, Basic Math & application in AI/M. Allohvk, Medium, June 20, 2025.

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A deep dive into vector spaces: The essence and core meaning of Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors and the Eigendecomposition. Ameh Emmanuel Sunday, Medium, May 26, 2025.

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Hooked on e. How a number can change your life. Harlan Brothers, Medium Science Spectrum, May 20, 2025.

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A Visual Understanding of Neural Networks. The math behind neural networks visually explained. Reza Bagheri, Medium, Jan. 11, 2025.

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