I’ve been in a math mood as of late. Here are some things that are fun.

– Create an arbitrary matrix. See if you can find the eigenvalues.

– Do stuff like this. Or just mathify food in general (Tukey sandwiches! Chocolate chi-squares! Mandelbratwurst! The ever punnalicious pumpkin pi! I could go on…). I think if we all had to Fourier transform our breakfasts in the morning our lives would be a lot cooler.

– I do interval workouts on the elliptical machine in the rec center. During the high intensity intervals, I start at zero in my head, count up to the next prime number, and count backwards to zero. Then I start again, counting up to the prime number after the first prime number, count backwards to zero, and repeat ad nauseum (like this: 0,1,0; 0,1,2,1,0; 0,1,2,3,2,1,0; 0,1,2,3,5,3,2,1,0; etc.).

– Do stuff like Zeno. Whenever you have to do something for a set period of time (like 30 minutes), divide the time in half in your head then, when you reach the halfway time, divide it in half again, and again, and again, until you’ve got like a minute left. I find this helps the time pass more quickly when I’m doing something not so enjoyable. Plus it’s fun.

– This video:

Yay!

Today’s song: Rich Girl$ by Down With Webster