Friday
Mar092007
by
Bishop Hill

Equation blogging

I've never blogged about Maths before - my reader numbers are quite small enough already. But I came across this today, and it is pretty amazing. If you take the following equation
(where mod and x are particular mathematical functions) and you plot a graph of it you get this:
Which you have to admit is pretty amazing. The equation, which is called Tupper's Self-Referential Equation is from here.
Reader Comments (3)
It is pretty stunning, though. Personally, I think the most amazing thing in maths is Khinchin's constant:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/KhinchinsConstant.html