Talk:2529: Unsolved Math Problems - Revision history

Noaqiyeum at 09:07, 20 May 2022

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Chem stats at 19:29, 27 October 2021

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Dansiman at 21:12, 26 October 2021

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Elkern: I swear I recognize the "curve" from the last panel as something from "Space Child's Mother Goose".

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I swear I recognize the "curve" from the last panel as something from "Space Child's Mother Goose".

Elkern: I swear I recognize the "curve" from the last panel as something from Piet Hein's "Space Child's Mother Goose".

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I swear I recognize the "curve" from the last panel as something from Piet Hein's "Space Child's Mother Goose".

172.70.130.87 at 20:37, 22 October 2021

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Ianrbibtitlht at 02:20, 21 October 2021

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141.101.99.92 at 19:41, 20 October 2021

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162.158.154.206 at 10:25, 20 October 2021

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172.68.132.66 at 02:05, 20 October 2021

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	In the transcript, the first 3 characters of the equation in panel 1 are showing up as basic squares for me. When I go into editing mode, I see the correct rendering of the characters in the wikitext, just not on the page itself. Don't know if this might create/indicate a problem for screen readers. I'm viewing the page on Chrome 94, in Windows 10 version 1909. [[User:Dansiman\|Dansiman]] ([[User talk:Dansiman\|talk]]) 21:12, 26 October 2021 (UTC)		In the transcript, the first 3 characters of the equation in panel 1 are showing up as basic squares for me. When I go into editing mode, I see the correct rendering of the characters in the wikitext, just not on the page itself. Don't know if this might create/indicate a problem for screen readers. I'm viewing the page on Chrome 94, in Windows 10 version 1909. [[User:Dansiman\|Dansiman]] ([[User talk:Dansiman\|talk]]) 21:12, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
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		+	I made an attempt to explain Euler fields, manifolds, and hypergroups; I think I hit "understandable", but definitely not "concise". If they could be as concise as the other entries, though, I guess someone else would have written them before me.
		+	I'm not sure "meta-algebra" is actually a thing - metamathematics is the application of mathematical principles to the study of mathematics, and algebra is mathematical notation and symbology, so algebra about algebra would be... semiotics? [[User:Noaqiyeum\|Noaqiyeum]] ([[User talk:Noaqiyeum\|talk]]) 09:07, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

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	Does anyone have any clue whether the writing on the board in the weirdly abstract panel means anything? Maybe add an explanation about it?[[Special:Contributions/162.158.227.91\|162.158.227.91]] 13:23, 17 October 2021 (UTC)		Does anyone have any clue whether the writing on the board in the weirdly abstract panel means anything? Maybe add an explanation about it?[[Special:Contributions/162.158.227.91\|162.158.227.91]] 13:23, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
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		+	I think it is also "ill-formed" in the sense that it is not very carefully written.

	Center panel possibly related to "The drunkards walk" and theories on randomised motion.		Center panel possibly related to "The drunkards walk" and theories on randomised motion.

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	I swear I recognize the Cursed Curve as the art from the story "The Theory that Jack Built", from "The Space Child's Mother Goose", by Frederick Winsor. Haven't been able to find my copy, so still not sure. [[User:Elkern\|Elkern]] ([[User talk:Elkern\|talk]]) 21:35, 25 October 2021 (UTC)		I swear I recognize the Cursed Curve as the art from the story "The Theory that Jack Built", from "The Space Child's Mother Goose", by Frederick Winsor. Haven't been able to find my copy, so still not sure. [[User:Elkern\|Elkern]] ([[User talk:Elkern\|talk]]) 21:35, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
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		+	In the transcript, the first 3 characters of the equation in panel 1 are showing up as basic squares for me. When I go into editing mode, I see the correct rendering of the characters in the wikitext, just not on the page itself. Don't know if this might create/indicate a problem for screen readers. I'm viewing the page on Chrome 94, in Windows 10 version 1909. [[User:Dansiman\|Dansiman]] ([[User talk:Dansiman\|talk]]) 21:12, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

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	:Maybe bad spelling by one or more editors? The spelling has now been fixed where it was incorrect. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht\|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht\|talk]]) 02:20, 21 October 2021 (UTC)		:Maybe bad spelling by one or more editors? The spelling has now been fixed where it was incorrect. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht\|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht\|talk]]) 02:20, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
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		+	I swear I recognize the Cursed Curve as the art from the story "The Theory that Jack Built", from "The Space Child's Mother Goose", by Frederick Winsor. Haven't been able to find my copy, so still not sure. [[User:Elkern\|Elkern]] ([[User talk:Elkern\|talk]]) 21:35, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

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	"Algebreic" is a misspelling of "algebraic". Could Randall really have made this mistake, or is it another malamanteau? What does "breic" come from? [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 06:10, 16 October 2021 (UTC)		"Algebreic" is a misspelling of "algebraic". Could Randall really have made this mistake, or is it another malamanteau? What does "breic" come from? [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 06:10, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
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	I wonder if Randall was actually referring to that quote about "Into the Woods", or he just thought "Sondheim calculus" sounded cool and it was a total coincidence. I found it when I googled "sondheim calculus" to make sure it wasn't a real thing. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 06:29, 16 October 2021 (UTC)		I wonder if Randall was actually referring to that quote about "Into the Woods", or he just thought "Sondheim calculus" sounded cool and it was a total coincidence. I found it when I googled "sondheim calculus" to make sure it wasn't a real thing. [[User:Barmar\|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar\|talk]]) 06:29, 16 October 2021 (UTC)

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	Links, '''please'''! Not all of us are mathematicians. If you mention something that you think the cursed curve might represent, please provide a link to something describing that something so the rest of us can read it and attempt to learn more. [[User:Shamino\|Shamino]] ([[User talk:Shamino\|talk]]) 17:44, 17 October 2021 (UTC)		Links, '''please'''! Not all of us are mathematicians. If you mention something that you think the cursed curve might represent, please provide a link to something describing that something so the rest of us can read it and attempt to learn more. [[User:Shamino\|Shamino]] ([[User talk:Shamino\|talk]]) 17:44, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
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		+	That cursed squiggle reminds me of the zeta function: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/11/29/near-zeros-of-zeta/

	That cursed squiggle sure looks like the sort of thing that used to flow from {{w\|Saul Steinberg}}'s pen, as seen in the pages of the New Yorker back in the 60s. The most relevant example I can find right now is from 1965: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/new-yorker-february-20th-1965-saul-steinberg.html [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.177\|162.158.255.177]] 03:38, 18 October 2021 (UTC)		That cursed squiggle sure looks like the sort of thing that used to flow from {{w\|Saul Steinberg}}'s pen, as seen in the pages of the New Yorker back in the 60s. The most relevant example I can find right now is from 1965: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/new-yorker-february-20th-1965-saul-steinberg.html [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.177\|162.158.255.177]] 03:38, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

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	Is there a reason why the article uses "millennium" (correct) and "millenium" (incorrrect)?		Is there a reason why the article uses "millennium" (correct) and "millenium" (incorrrect)?
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		+	:Maybe bad spelling by one or more editors? The spelling has now been fixed where it was incorrect. [[User:Ianrbibtitlht\|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht\|talk]]) 02:20, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

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	Are there any examples of "cursed" math problems? I've seen "weirdly abstract" and "weirdly concrete" ones, but not "cursed" ones. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.117\|162.158.63.117]] 01:03, 17 October 2021 (UTC)		Are there any examples of "cursed" math problems? I've seen "weirdly abstract" and "weirdly concrete" ones, but not "cursed" ones. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.63.117\|162.158.63.117]] 01:03, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
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		+	:: Some functions definitely make graphs that look weird to humans for reasons that are not immediately obvious (see <code>sin(cos(tan(xy))) = sin(cos(tan(x))) + sin(cos(tan(y)))</code>: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/mt08x3yqxj). I suppose to be cursed in the sense I take here, it would have to be unsolved as to ''why'' it looks weird to humans, which is probably not the case in my example, but I imagine there are examples. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.92\|141.101.99.92]] 19:41, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

	The symbol in the third panel looks like an unalome, which is not a mathematical symbol but a Buddhist or mystical one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantra_tattooing#Types_and_designs		The symbol in the third panel looks like an unalome, which is not a mathematical symbol but a Buddhist or mystical one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yantra_tattooing#Types_and_designs

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 : It looks like Vulcan script to me.  [[User:LtPowers|LtPowers]] ([[User talk:LtPowers|talk]]) 13:51, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
 : That's what it looks like to me too; recognized it from that Numberphile video on Fibonacci numbers in the complex plane [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.245|108.162.245.245]] 07:36, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
 Could the cursed curve be a reference to the logistic map?

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	Shout-out to whoever wrote the incomplete tag. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.172\|162.158.74.172]] 20:21, 19 October 2021 (UTC)		Shout-out to whoever wrote the incomplete tag. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.172\|162.158.74.172]] 20:21, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
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		+	Is there a reason why the article uses "millennium" (correct) and "millenium" (incorrrect)?