Mar 14, 2023·edited Mar 14, 2023Liked by Holly MathNerd
Wish could make a real pie for the festivities! I emailed you a couple though. Pies are the first thing I made on my own before attending pastry school many many years ago.
The concept of a prime number sounds lonely. Only two factors. Almost alone. Perhaps they keep company with the other primes, together in their rarity. "Hey, I know what it's like." Or perhaps its a badge of honor. They are each singular, after all.
tl;dr the ratio circumference to radius, rather than diameter, is actually a better number to use as the "circle constant", because practically every formula requiring the use of the circle constant actually requires the ratio of circumference to radius, requiring us to double the value of pi pretty much everywhere that we actually use it.
As a member of the e is the more cooler number gang, I always enjoy stuff like this. Shame we can’t really have an e day.
A joke.
Student: Professor what’s the difference between a diameter and a radius
Professor: A radius
Student: Stares confusingly.
My favorite class to teach was trig because of you had the definitions of the three main trig functions and the first quadrant of the unit circle then you had all the tools needed to understand 80% of the class.
So frustrating for students to be able to fill out a unit circle perfectly and then turn around and not be able to state domain or range of the trig functions. Talk about not using then cheat sheet.
An old time YouTuber you remind me of is Vi Hart. She has a lot of great stuff but she rarely posts anything anymore. I would highly recommend you check some of her stuff out.
Not a math nerd (sadly for my SATs) but I know that if I ever opened a pastry bakery, I would name it Omicron Pie---does that give me a half-credit point?
'kin 'ell! Fifty years late, I grasp what that twat Br. Rinn was on about.
"Please Miss! Can I corral you as my On-Line Remedial Maths Teacher? Please Miss Holly, Please! A Napple a day, Miss. Honest, Miss, Please Miss?!!" Hand in the air; bouncing up and down on the settle. :-)
And I may only be half in jest!
Never heard of that Unit Circle thingymeplonkasaurus before. Sines and cosines are summat to do with the circle? You've made gibberish algebra-ish, pardon the pun. Circular reasoning is... rational. Whoda thunk? I can grasp now from your almost-religious awe the how-and-why Pythagoras tippled over into mystagoguey and the how-and-why of the circle being sacred; so sacred Copernicus' heliocentrism tripped on it.
I am an attorney and teach law and criminal justice at a community college, and have been practicing law for 28 years. However, my BS is in physics and mathematics and I, too, find the unit circle strangely comforting, even after all these years. I will still occasionally sketch it out and put all the coordinates in place just to see if I can do it.
I will also occasionally calculate the distance from home plate to second base on the baseball diamond. I had first learned it in a book about baseball as just a statement of fact, but later learned how to calculate it given the known distances between the bases.
I enjoy your writings, even the articles about math. Happy Pi Day!
Wish could make a real pie for the festivities! I emailed you a couple though. Pies are the first thing I made on my own before attending pastry school many many years ago.
The concept of a prime number sounds lonely. Only two factors. Almost alone. Perhaps they keep company with the other primes, together in their rarity. "Hey, I know what it's like." Or perhaps its a badge of honor. They are each singular, after all.
What's your opinion on the Tau Manifesto: https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
tl;dr the ratio circumference to radius, rather than diameter, is actually a better number to use as the "circle constant", because practically every formula requiring the use of the circle constant actually requires the ratio of circumference to radius, requiring us to double the value of pi pretty much everywhere that we actually use it.
Dark Horse Double Down Red Pill, sorry, Blend. Seriously? :-)
As a member of the e is the more cooler number gang, I always enjoy stuff like this. Shame we can’t really have an e day.
A joke.
Student: Professor what’s the difference between a diameter and a radius
Professor: A radius
Student: Stares confusingly.
My favorite class to teach was trig because of you had the definitions of the three main trig functions and the first quadrant of the unit circle then you had all the tools needed to understand 80% of the class.
So frustrating for students to be able to fill out a unit circle perfectly and then turn around and not be able to state domain or range of the trig functions. Talk about not using then cheat sheet.
An old time YouTuber you remind me of is Vi Hart. She has a lot of great stuff but she rarely posts anything anymore. I would highly recommend you check some of her stuff out.
Not a math nerd (sadly for my SATs) but I know that if I ever opened a pastry bakery, I would name it Omicron Pie---does that give me a half-credit point?
'kin 'ell! Fifty years late, I grasp what that twat Br. Rinn was on about.
"Please Miss! Can I corral you as my On-Line Remedial Maths Teacher? Please Miss Holly, Please! A Napple a day, Miss. Honest, Miss, Please Miss?!!" Hand in the air; bouncing up and down on the settle. :-)
And I may only be half in jest!
Never heard of that Unit Circle thingymeplonkasaurus before. Sines and cosines are summat to do with the circle? You've made gibberish algebra-ish, pardon the pun. Circular reasoning is... rational. Whoda thunk? I can grasp now from your almost-religious awe the how-and-why Pythagoras tippled over into mystagoguey and the how-and-why of the circle being sacred; so sacred Copernicus' heliocentrism tripped on it.
Cheers for this; it was quite wonderful.
Hi Holly:
I am an attorney and teach law and criminal justice at a community college, and have been practicing law for 28 years. However, my BS is in physics and mathematics and I, too, find the unit circle strangely comforting, even after all these years. I will still occasionally sketch it out and put all the coordinates in place just to see if I can do it.
I will also occasionally calculate the distance from home plate to second base on the baseball diamond. I had first learned it in a book about baseball as just a statement of fact, but later learned how to calculate it given the known distances between the bases.
I enjoy your writings, even the articles about math. Happy Pi Day!
Greg Perry
> I’ve written about mathematics so much that I’m a little surprised any of you normies still read me, ha!
Who you callin' a normie, lady?
I ain't gonna take that from anyone!
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There was a Pi Day event at my brand new job yesterday.
The pizza had run out before I got in the serving room, so lunch yesterday consisted entirely of, well, pie.
Yesterday afternoon was spent vigorously defending against food comas and sugar crashes...
Still, some tasty, tasty pies.