Tangents

An eclectic collection of some of my favorites.

Conway's Game of Life Play it in your browser VisualPDE Play with PDEs in your browser The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis A. M. Turing, 1952 More Is Different P. W. Anderson, Science, 1972 Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling E. Cerda and L. Mahadevan, PRL, 2003 Data Colada Blog The man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize BobbyBroccoli, YouTube But what is a neural network? 3Blue1Brown, YouTube The Joy of Why Podcast, Quanta Magazine

If you need some help with the math, let me know, but that should be enough to get you started! Huh? No, I don't need to read your thesis, I can imagine roughly what it says. xkcd #793, “Physicists” by Randall Munroe, CC BY-NC 2.5