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October 26, 2007
Equations as expression
The Edge and the Swiss Serpentine Gallery have posted the results of asking scientists and artists "What is your formula?" The results are various scribblings and typesettings of physical and social relationships, put in the form of a mathematical equation.
There's a wide diversity in the set -- some are kind of banal, some ideas make several appearances, and some are contentious opinions dressed up in math -- but some are both suggestive and interesting. I particularly liked Sean Carroll's hierarchy of fundamental scales in physics, spanning 60 orders of magnitude, David Deutsch's self-consistent time-traveling quantum computer, Lisa Randall's 5-dimensional solution to Einstein's equations for gravity, and Drew Endy's "mutation without representation" .
posted October 26, 2007 07:45 AM in Pleasant Diversions | permalink
Comments
Great!!! What I want two years ago is a formula search engine that works on various papers, The Edge is much more attractive and powerful.
Posted by: succc at October 28, 2007 04:18 AM