Friday miscellany

5 comments on “Friday miscellany”

1. Alex Gezerlis says:

   29 July 2011 at 08:38

   Re: the link on Einstein and math: not very authoritative itself, especially given that it ends with this sentence

   “He even came up on his own with a way to prove the Pythagorean theory.”

   Maybe Isaacson is referring to not eating beans…
2. Tom Fawcett says:

   29 July 2011 at 09:27

   Re: Breaking down the Apple logo Fibonacci style

   Not sure what to make of this. Does anyone think this really relates the Apple logo with Fibonacci geometrical constructs in any meaningful way? If you’re allowed arbitrary rotations, reflection and selection, can’t you decompose almost any arbitrary figure into (apparently) Fibonacci components?
3. Andrew Webb says:

   1 August 2011 at 10:42

   Re: Breaking down the Apple logo Fibonacci style

   I agree with Mr. Fawcett, this is the same apophenia that underlies Fibonacci retracement technical analysis of the stock market. I believe you stat junkies call this a Type I error.
4. Johannes says:

   27 February 2012 at 04:00

   The Einstein link is dead by now. I think the article now is at

   http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1936731_1936743_1936758,00.html

   (Yes, I know I’m late. I just tend to procrastinate on reading the w+ miscellany articles as they are a little unpredictable on how much time I need to look through them )
5. John says:

   27 February 2012 at 06:39

   Thanks. I’ve updated the link.