I really liked this. Reminds me a little of Indian flute playing. I wonder how he makes all those different pitches!

Mark Growden plays the handlebars from Doctor Popular on Vimeo.

Here's an mp3 file, and for those of you who have higher standards, here's the flac version. They're both too big though.

Finally getting a post related to this up. Thanks for the footage and for performing last minute, Todd Vanderlin:

Cognitive Resonance from vanderlin on Vimeo.

I've been working on some SuperCollider 3 stuff lately, trying to get my skills up a bit. Things are going well, and I'm preparing for a gig on Sunday at MonkeyTown in Brooklyn. Apparently it's being billed "Advanced Vision + Sound from Parsons," although I don't think that all of us will be Parsons students...but, close enough.

Anyways, I've got the beginnings of something going here, check it out.

Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:40:38 +0000
From: "Cianfrini Krumsiek"
To: < my email address, strangely enough >
Subject: mothy antinucleon

Heyello,


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to me. And milk, for the women cold bakemeats and ale i
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No, of course the link doesn't work.

Abraham de Moivre was recognized by his peers as a talented mathematician and evidently respected by gamblers too for his work in probability theory. One of his most notable mathematical achievements was de Moivre's identity, which can be derived from Euler's formula (which, by the way, blows my mind the more I learn about it).

Apparently he counted down to his own death. He noted that he was sleeping 15 minutes longer each day, and thusly calculated accurately the day of his death based on this. Sounds like one of the stranger episodes of The Twilight Zone.

Digging in further into the Math Blog's archive, I found this post with a series of five videos about interesting math-related content. Well, interesting to some. I found the videos about math education in Washington to be...fine. The video on ten dimensions left a bad taste in my mouth when I read that it was not really connected to the theories of string theory, but "still, many people around the world feel this new idea has resonances with their own ways of understanding reality." Okay, that's nice. And I didn't watch the Flatlander video yet...I've read the book though.

This one, however, blew my $*#&ing mind. Not to mention that I thought the female robot-voiced actor incredibly sexy. "That's no good either. You're pinching it infinitely tight."

Evidentally this is an explication of the Whitney-Graustein theorem, which I believe falls under the category of Surgery theory and more generally Topology. Woah.

I was unaware of the work of "algorist" Jean-Pierre Hébert until I stumbled across this page on the Apple science web site.

I found this lecture by the mathematician Timothy Gowers (Prof. Gowers Wikipedia page here) very interesting and educational. I understood almost all of the math he introduced as well, which suggests to me he must be quite a good teacher.

He mentions the paper The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences by Nobel Prize-winner Eugene Wigner towards the end—it's worth a read.

Thanks to Math Blog for this.