h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ooh nice menu! Thanks! heheh.

I just had a massive setback in my maths career. . I'll get it over though, thanks to the Hootoo School of Maths.

The local authority Autumn evening classes in our town are only running Functional Maths. There's no sums or algebra. It's more like logic things, like if you go to town and buy five apples ... and .... and ... what?? erm ... I don't know. .

If I want to do long division and algebra and things I have to go to the next town where there is a GCSE course, but it's too far, and anyway I don't think I do exams.

I might chew my paws and bark manically at the spinning stars.

It's good though, I can teach myself (and learn here of course heheh (sips slow gin)). I have a good workbook. I think I am about to meet someone who can teach me ..... I see a strange looking guy ...he looks thin, haunted .... he is at the bar .... of the Al Jebr Hotel .... he is ... uh oh, its Ruben, the poet in my head. I might sell my soul to him. No maybe I won't. Not sure if equations are worth it.

That's a very interesting posting isn't it?

fried eggs? with gin? yukkydukky

+ = breakfast -

+ + = breakfast - +

My new invention, the fried egg smiley equation made me so hungry, I went to the coffeeshop this morning and ordered a fried egg and tomato for breakfast. Serious. I have no life. .It was lovely. Haven't had a fried egg in ages.

It wasn't as good as a smiley though. So beautiful these little graphics.

I found a way on my photo editing site to reduce the size a photo so I can use it with the paintbrush facility. Now I can make a photo-painting with 500 tiny portraits of my second cousin , although that is of limited interest to the outside world. .

hmm. It's more like abstract patterns. I was just being stupid there. It's great for backgrounds, and now I am going to make equations from them.

Here though, I can use the smileys, pretend they are maths, or poems, or fractals, or fractal poem-maths, even though the association with and the fragrance of a smoky blue summer breeze might take me a while to configure.

minus 1 x minus1000 s = 1000 s

1000 smiley cheesecakes = something entirely other.

Perhaps smiles. Or a sweet swirly pink dance. Or the sweet dance of smiles.

*just casually overlooks the eating*



everything else makes perfect sense

Wait till I start on mammoth smileys. . Although they don't make me so hungry. . Need an oj .

minus plus =

PS

I meant to say, oh Peoples of Pythagorean Paradiso (actually I don't know anything about Pythagoras (adds to study list))....

.... As from Wednesday I am scheduled to escape from my room for a few days, , so I will be relying on internet cafes for my source of hootoo which will mean that my postings will lesser yet wiser. . hmm.

I will remember to check next Monday, though, for Maria's marvellous piece! And see this week my maths shroom is there, looking like a protractor that had an argument with its higher self. heheh. Actually I love the way it looks in print, thanks Ed.

And check the Gheorgheniplex for further insights into the spirograph nebula, and I think there some other maths things too, but I haven't got there yet, and that's that and this is this and .....

onward!!

cc

* a magpie enters and drops a curious pyramid of numbers*

http://share.banoosh.com/2012/08/25/interesting-2/#!prettyPhoto-9113/0/


and peakisses Cactus Cafetina fingers, inviting her to play doing pyramids of fried eggs, pandas... and numbers.

Wow magic magpie!

That is one amazing pyramid of numbers! What about that then? Thankyou! I am going to copy that into my book, and consider it, along with the lilies of the field. And other things.

Weird you mention magpies. We have a lot of magpies around where we live. I hear them in the neighbour's garden. They perch majestically on the fence, looking like they are the child of the crow and the dove. Or maybe they are?

Anyway, this morning, in the early hours, before dawn, I was awakened by a magpie chattering in the darkness. It was very distinctive. Normally they don't start chattering till the dawn light. It must have been disturbed by a cat or something.

I sang my favourite Radiohead track to it ...

Good morning, Mr Magpie

...which hopefully soothed it. Or else I scared away the cat.

(heads off to copy out number pyramid, in green and orange)

Hi cactuscafe, I'm glad I've found this conversation.

I've never been able to put my head round numbers. I remember the stories, though.

Like Archimedes lying in his bath and the water coming over the top. Which gave him an idea for discovering whether gold was really gold.

And Galileo dropping objects from the Leaning tower of Pisa and timing their fall.

mvp! My friend! How are you?

Here, have a glass of slow gin , which is slow running sloe gin.

You know Peanut and Maria? (doing the intros here ).

mvp is a writer. (still doing in the intros here. )

She has left me consumed with curiosity for months, concerning the characters from her recent story which is set in France, and she still hasn't told me what happens.......

. I await.

Welcome to the Hootoo School of Maths .... and the School of anything else that might cross our path. .

We have many paths, with many things running across them.

Since we last met I have been wandering the streets and avenues of daydream, eating salted peanuts and searching 24 hr supermarkets for the source of algebra ..

Do you know anything about algebra?

Ah Archimedes! I know the name, but I know not about the gold! And I never knew about Galileo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. How extraordinary!

hello mvp I am delighted to you meet properly, what a wonderful place to be introduced

Maria i thank you for a pyramid of numbers, it is on the list to explore, in our tent, in a woodland somewhere, that happens to have wifi

I have packed a calculator,

along with my tin opener which is handy for opening baked beans

nearly camping under a blue moon but not quite

do you like camping Cactuscafe?

Spiller forgot the last bottle of sloe gin, so now we have to unfortunately *cough* buy Lyme bay wines

any particular flavour, berries, parsnip, quince, rhubarb?

A woodland with wifi? That's my kind of camping. . Plus a sauna and a TV room. And if I could borrow Spiller, to serve me a chilled Lyme Bay wine. Think I might attempt the parsnip.

Lyme Bay, eh? Suggests the West Country. We live in South Devon. Nice here, Wifi in the woodlands, blue moons on Thursdays, rainbow rain on Mondays ... and nice beaches.

You've packed a calculator? Excellent. The Hootoo School of Maths are always ready for action.


I'm off upcountry tomorrow for a few days, to visit my remaining relatives. I've packed my calculator, serious , oh dear, just in case I need a few sessions of long division. The remaining relatives might be very worried about me. .

One of my favourite campsites was a little field at the foot of Glastonbury Tor. There was a shower block, not a lot else, but when you crawled out of the tent, there was the Tor right before your eyes. The energy was so powerful, I remember leaping through the cowpats to the shower block without a care in the world.

Why do baked beans taste so different when eaten outdoors? It is an indisputable fact, I think. I love baked beans anyway, but eaten outdoors, there is nothing finer.

Washed down with fine Lyme Bay wine of course....

I love camping too... you know, my honeymoon was about camping around the north of Spain in an autocaravan a friend lent us...


but first is first,

hello mvp, ( shake hands)

I see what you say, I also remember the stories... I couldn´t explain Pythagoras theorem , but I remember that he thought that planets revolving makes music, the music of spheres, or that the didn´t like beans, because the soul could be affected by the gases... maybe that´s only a legend...
he should have used cumin, which helps digestion...

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Now, since CC mentioned that of the DNA I´ve meant to link something about Dali and that issue. Dali was fascinated by Science, you can see that in his paintings. He had letter correspondence with S. Hawkings and other important mathematicians of his time. He also met one of the scientists who discovered the DNA.

I hope that this work for you. They are some videos about Dali and his fascination for the Science and Art.

Dimensión Dalí

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dimension+dali+documental&aq=f

Hello Peanut. It's good to meet you.

I think I should enrol myself in the Hootoo School of Maths. I know people say that maths is about patterns. My husband, who's good at maths, will show me the night sky and point out patterns. Sagittarius is a teapot , Leo is a backward questionmark.

I can imagine him doing watching from a tent with wifi -though he'd need to keep his telescope dry.

una corona de leche! ah listen to that wonderful language on that video. thanks Maria

I had no idea about the link between Dali and science, and that he corresponded with Stephen Hawking, and met one of the scientists who discovered DNA.

Of course the link is obvious now I think about it. Now I am thinking through new eyes. heheh. I know his paintings speak to me, but now they will speak to me from new dimensions.

So Pythagoras was the music of the spheres fellow then? Wow. I was talking about him yesterday with my spouse, and the spouse (who is a musician) tells me that Pythagoras was really into the monochord.

Even though he would be the first to dispute the baked bean theory then. .

I have so much to learn, there is so much mystery and beauty around me, I need another lifetime, please fates arrange that. heheh.

Saggitarius is a teapot? Leo is a backward question mark? And the pattern is everywhere. I'd like a telescope. I have a kaleidoscope. heheh. The pattern is everywhere!!



What a wonderful honeymoon, Maria. I'd love to know more about your country. One of my favourite artists is Joan Miro. I love the work of Joan Miro.

ah yes

I like Miró too. What about Gaudí? another man into the mystic of maths. He was very religious, and also kind of obsessed with finding God through art and geometry.

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You probably will know Escher. He visited my hometown Granada around the 30s. The geometry of the Alhambra fascinated him completely. He started to do deep studies about it and then drew his fascination.

This is about him. At the minute 30 of the video , what I´ve just mentioned is explained.
http://youtu.be/1d5blV9RDgM

last December my dear sister gave me a lovely present. She told me that my present was in La Alhambra and we have to go there. There was an exhibit of Escher, I still remember the room where a video was projected. It was an hexagonal crypt Carlos V had prepared for him, but it wasn´t used finally. Images ran one after another on each side of the crypt... changing images, metamorphying as Escher had drawn them...

You must visit La Alhambra.

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Back to Dalí, surrealists were who introduced Dalí in the field of Physics. If you think about the idea of the relativity of the space and the time or that a particle can be and cannot be at the same time, or that observation determines the object observed... all that and more mind-bogling concepts... then there´s no wonder about his fascination, all that opens the doors to imagination.

hmmm...

I think I need a bit of slow gin...

Hello Maria. It's good to meet you here.

I like Escher. I took my son to see an exhibition of his work in Croydon Town Hall - of all places. Some of his pieces are amazingly intricate.

Escher!I love Escher!

Me too ... please .... a slow gin... ... thanks! Cheers!

An Escher show in Croyden? How come I missed that? hmm.

La Alhambra, La Alhambra ....(writes in notebook. I have quite a study book here, for my trip. heheh) I love it.

I love the curl-ups. The Escher curl-ups. They are weird but I love them.

And Gaudi. And yes! yes! Maria, we need some more write ups please! And once mvp gets started, with maths-pattern stories .....

Yes, the Surrealists were onto something for sure.

The painter Leonora Carrington is the love of my life ...(clutches heart). She died last year. She eloped with Max Ernst, had quite a life, ended up in Mexico. I saw an exhibition of hers in Chichester a couple of years back. Incredible. The spirits were dancing in the gallery that day! Actually I don't think she liked to be called a surrealist. So that was a waste of a paragraph. Not really, , because here we write about all things marvelous.

Yes! The marvelous! We celebrate the marvelous! Or is it marvellous? It looks funny with one L.

(sips slow gin). ... Oh no! I am supposed to be packing!

Speak soon!

looks like I have some Maths homework to catch up on later and

there was wifi in the woodland, just not our bit, that is what you get for pitching at the far side of the site in a more secluded area. The quiet was lovely and a deer just strolling by while we were playing cards

Wellcome back from the woodlands?

last time I saw CC was packing a suitcase to go somewhere...


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Look at what I´ve found, a H2 Math Library and Lab!!

A895359

and I´ve learnt that Raymond Queneau was also a mathematician!

He wrote Exercises of Style, it´s the same story told many times , differently. Very funny. Read it if you haven´t.