Pythagoras Theorem

  • Pythagoras Sings The Blues
    I'd like to introduce you to the relationship of music and geometry. As Goethe succinctly put it "geometry is frozen music" and with that in mind let's examine it's integration with the plastic, visual arts, the application of it in my sculptures and anecdotal stories in the unfolding of our understanding of music. It would be hard to imagine life without music, indeed there wouldn't be life without music. It is , it seems, the structure and mechanics of the physical world, from the dimensions Read More...
  • Teach Your Kids Arithmetic - Division Shortcuts
    The famous Greek mathematician Pythagoras (you know the one with that theorem) said, “Numbers have a way of taking you by the hand and leading you down the path of reason.” What Pythagoras was getting at, I think, is that numbers—by their very nature—permit us to do things which enable an understanding of the very universe and its intricate laws. Numbers have their roots in arithmetic, and a mastery of this field, particularly the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and—y Read More...
  • Travel Faster and Stay Younger
    The "Twin Paradox" was born in 1911, after Paul Langevin restated Einstein's time dilation of traveling clocks as an interesting variant, paraphrased as: "one of two twins, say Pam, Jim's twin sister, undertakes a long, very fast space flight and on her return to Earth, finds her twin brother quite a bit older than herself". Why is it a paradox? Skeptics of relativity argue that after Pam has reached her cruising speed, she could consider herself as at rest and that it's Jim that is rushing awa Read More...
    • RELATED ARTICLES