Bookmarks tagged “maths”
11 bookmarks tagged “maths”
Mario meets Pareto
Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.
What Can We Gain by Losing Infinity? | Quanta Magazine
Ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insights in math and beyond.
Hacking Super Mario 64 using covering spaces (+ hyperbolic geometry)
Visualization of the universal cover of a surface of genus 2, which is a hyperbolic space.
Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation
It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically proven ...
Cross Products in Game Development and Their Use Cases
Introduction If you are coming from the Dot Product math tutorial, I thank you for going through it! The understandings of the previous tutorials are just the tools in your toolbox to becoming a ga…
Dot Products in Games and Their Use Cases
Introduction If you are coming from the Points and Vectors guide, let me thank you guys for reading that and I hoped it helped! If you are new to the series, I will be going over 3D and Linear Alge…
Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is | Quanta Magazine
The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.
How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.
