We often hear about youth lost in the world of alcohol and drugs, but less often of young people pleasantly immersed within geometry. And because geometry is a mathematical concept, and it is possible to investigate a bottle's curvature, as well as any liquids including alcohol which may be expressed meticulously via precise laws of […]
Posts in category Geometry
Euclidean distance and others: metric...
Short sum up... In a previous post we talked about Euclidean and other distances... In that post we introduced the definition of Euclidean, taxi driver and infinity distances. Almost anyone of you remembers the minimum distance, at the end of the post we explained that the minimum distance is not acceptable as a measure because it does not […]
Euclidean distance and others: bikers...
In these days I and a collegue of mine had a conversation on a recent law proposed by Ségolèn Royal in French Parlament. Shortly, this law would provide a monetary refund for those who go to work by bike; the refund is proportional to the distance covered every day. After a moment, everyone of us started thinking at the main point of it; everyone knows that there are […]