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The Unlikely Correctness of Newton’s LawsThe Unlikely Correctness of Newton’s Laws By Lê Nguyên Hoang | Updated:2016-02 | Views: 5363 Do moving objects exhaust? Does the Moon accelerate? How strong is the gravity pull of the Moon on the Earth compared to that of the Earth on the Moon? While we’ve all learned Newton’s laws of motion, many of us would get several answers of these questions wrong. That’s not so surprising, as Newton’s laws are deeply counter-intuitive. By stressing their weirdness with Veritasium videos, this article dives into a deep understanding of classical mechanics.
Geological Wonders of IcelandGeological Wonders of Iceland By Lê Nguyên Hoang | Updated:2016-02 | Views: 2037 Iceland is at an amazingly active volcanic location, yielding extreme geological phenomenons. Iceland is therefore a giant laboratory for geologists. It’s also an awesome place for visitors, especially hikers. This article introduces some of Iceland’s wonders.
The Amazing Physics of Water in TreesThe Amazing Physics of Water in Trees By Lê Nguyên Hoang | Updated:2016-01 | Views: 39094 As explained by Derek Muller on Veritasium, the flow of water in trees involves complex physical phenomena including pressure, osmosis, negative pressure, capillarity and evapotranspiration. What seems simple will blow your mind!
Model-Dependent RealismModel-Dependent Realism By Lê Nguyên Hoang | Updated:2016-02 | Views: 3515 Introduced by the two renowned theoretical physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinov in their book The Grand Design in 2010, model-dependent realism is a new controversial understanding of the universe. Based on solid logical reasonings and recent developments in physics, this concept may well be an incredible breakthrough for philosophy and science, as well as metaphysics.
From Divide and Conquer to ParallelizationFrom Divide and Conquer to Parallelization By Lê Nguyên Hoang | Updated:2015-12 | Views: 1558 Divide and conquer is a extremely powerful concept that is being used a lot in computer science, and that can also be applied in real life. We present its application to sorting algorithms. Then we’ll talk about a major fundamental open mathematical problem, called P=NC.
Geometry and General RelativityGeometry and General Relativity By Scott McKinney | Updated:2015-12 | Views: 2642 From our “intrinsic” point-of-view on the surface of the Earth, it appears to be flat, but if we examine the Earth from the “extrinsic” point of view, somewhere off the Earth’s surface, we can see that it is clearly a curved surface. Amazingly, it is possible to determine that the Earth is spherical simply by taking measurements on its surface, and it is possible to generalize these measurements in order to study the shape of the universe. Mathematicians such as Riemann did just this, and Einstein was able to apply these geometric ideas to his “general theory of relativity”, which describes the relation between gravitation, space, and time.
Topology: from the Basics to ConnectednessTopology: from the Basics to Connectedness By Lê Nguyên Hoang | Updated:2016-02 | Views: 5583 Topology was my favorite course in pure maths. I love it because it’s a powerful abstract theory to describe intuitive and visual ideas about space. This article gives you an introduction to this amazing field. We’ll introduce graph topology, metric spaces, continuity and connectedness.
Euler’s Formula and the Utilities ProblemEuler’s Formula and the Utilities Problem By Lê Nguyên Hoang | Updated:2016-01 | Views: 11089 I was a kid when I was first introduced to the deceptively simple utilities problem. It’s only lately that I’ve discovered its solution! And it’s an amazing one! Indeed, it provides a wonderful insight into some fundamental mathematics, including Euler’s formula! This is nothing less than the gateway to the wonderful world of algebraic topology!
Numbers and ConstructibilityNumbers and Constructibility By Lê Nguyên Hoang | Updated:2016-02 | Views: 6118 Last summer, I got to discover Morellet’s artwork on inclined grids. Amazingly, this artwork is a display of the irrationality of $\sqrt{2}$! It’s also a strong argument for the existence of this number. In this article, after discussing that, I take readers further by discussing what numbers can be constructed geometrically, algebraically, analytically or set theoretically using the power of mathematics!
The Unlikely Correctness of Newton’s Laws
