Tau Day: Recycling Ideas · 10:59pm Jun 28th, 2017
Tau day - 6.28 - has come around again, so I have the once-a-year chance to plug The Tau of Two Pie and make some circle jokes which you have heard before.
One detail which I haven't mentioned before is that the idea behind this story was taken from a similar scene in Peter Høeg's novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne), where the main character unexpectedly bonds with a young child while reading Euclid's Elements. Smilla is a half-Greenlandic glaciologist, in some ways more focussed on snow, ice and mathematics than people. She is a different character to Maud Pie, yet the trope of a lone geoscientist is one which turns up again and again in science-themed fiction.
What other literary characters are there in the mould of Maud Pie?
Hmmm - one that comes to mind is Ian Malcolm of Jurassic Park. A bit too focused on chaos theory. Emotionally simmering, never boiling.
Not sure if it's a good fit.
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Rocks, uhhh, find a way
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I taught my niece trigonometry using Tau since last year and taught her how to never use the wrong equation for the interior of an n-sphere for the 2nd and 3rd dimensions using Tau by memorizing this general formula:
(d-1)/dτ^d=interior
That gives τ/2r^2=area for the 2nd dimension and ⅔τr^3=volume for the 3rd dimension. Sure, it does not hold for higher dimensions, but she lives in an universe with 3 spatial dimensions, so it is good for 99% of the time she will have to calculate the interior of an n-sphere.
Miss Maudalina Daisy Pie earned her Rocktorate; thus, making her Rocktrix Maudalina Daisy Pie Ph.R (Philosophiæ Rocktrix). It is nice to have a show encouraging education and providing female rolemodels.
Evidently, My feed is too big because I missed your newest stories. I shall read them.
Recycling ideas as in them going around in circles. I see what you did there.