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(on Wikipedia)
www.khanacademy.org
A website for learning stuff, most notably mathematics.
Overall good, but definitely has room for improvement.
- See also KA Lite, an unofficial (though approved) offline clone of this website.
mathematics
All posts tagged mathematics
 Math limerick |
STEM >
Resources for re-learning everything from scratch.
Specifically Mathematics that leads into understanding statistics.
Khan Academy is most notable.
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/
A man stares into the sun as a child, and develops superhuman powers of math, pattern recognition with a side order of paranoia etc.
I don't think this will appeal to most people, since it deal with topics only the fringe of humanity have any comprehension of. I happen to like it quite a bit, for reasons I certainly never hinted at in the previous sentence.
See also The Secret Number (bleem)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae2ghhGkY-s
- I'll get around to reviewing this.
See also The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and it's "Meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything", the number 42.
