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Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
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The key in maths, and with maps, is to find the most appropriate level of abstraction for the given moment.
Eugenia Cheng • How to Bake Pi
8. First order irrational, second order rational (h/t Chris Paik)
Talia Goldberg • Distribution and conversion models for consumer startups
Nature prefers growth that is either vertigo-inducing or decidedly softer: exponentials and logarithms appear everywhere in its equations. Nature is, by its own nature, nonlinear.
Paolo Giordano • How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises - The Essay That Helped Change the Covid-19 Debate
Bill Thurston writes:
Mathematics is a process of staring hard enough with enough perseverance at the fog of muddle and confusion to eventually break through to improved clarity.
Andy Matuschak • Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research
the mathematical secret behind finding curves of minimum length, or any other property.
