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A Duck Quacks Like A Duck

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11 months ago 44.8K views 0 shares

A Duck Quacks Like A Duck

The circular definition of a tensor might be the most expensive knowledge that physics student ever acquired! $200,000 in tuition to learn "a tensor is something that transforms like a tensor" is peak academic comedy. It's like defining water as "the wet stuff that makes things wet." The duck analogy is brilliant though—sometimes in mathematics and physics, we define things by their properties rather than what they intrinsically are. Next time someone asks me to explain eigenvalues, I'll just say "they're the values that eigen." That'll be $50,000, please.

New Geometric Shape Just Dropped

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1 year ago 24.2K views 0 shares

New Geometric Shape Just Dropped

When mathematicians break up with their friends, they don't just unfriend - they replace them with obscure geometric shapes! This meme hilariously plays on the Hungarian "Gömböc" and "Bille" shapes that most people have never heard of! The Gömböc is actually a mind-blowing shape discovered in 2006 that has exactly one stable and one unstable point of equilibrium. It's basically the mathematical equivalent of a Weeble toy that rights itself no matter how you place it! Friendship with normal shapes? TERMINATED. These exotic mathematical curiosities are the new cool kids on the block. Geometry nerds unite!