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The Axioms of Mathematics.

What is mathematics and what does it, as a deductive apparatus, assume itself? Here, the formalist viewpoint that mathematics is truly just the study of structures defined by rigorous formal properties is explored, with an overview on the three modern approaches.

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Nuclear Luck.

Did you know that the U.S. dropped at least 12 atomic weapons on itself and it's allies by accident? While the number of Russian nuclear incidents of this nature has never been disclosed. During the height of the cold war, nuclear weapons were constantly in the air and under the ocean, and they still are.

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Crystal Graphs for Machine Learning.

This article discusses the most common techniques used in the representation of crystalline structures as graphs. This includes the determination of edges and of the associated features, which encode physical information.

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The 4 Working Principles of Special Relativity.

Special Relativity really doesn't need to be too hard as it can be described using only algebra (assuming no acceleration). For conceptual understanding, the theory can be broken down into 4 fundamental concepts: velocity addition, time dilation, length contraction, and the rear-clock ahead effect.

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Deriving the Klein-Gordon Equations.

The Klein-Gordon equations describe a relativistic quantum field, but not one we really care about in most cases. Generally, though, it's briefly mentioned in the introduction of the Dirac equation or used as a first example of a quantum field. Here, we derive the form of the equations in two ways and then discuss their applicability.

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Train thumbnail. (Photo credit to SenuScape)

The 4 Working Principles of Special Relativity.

Special Relativity really doesn't need to be too hard as it can be described using only algebra (assuming no acceleration). For conceptual understanding, the theory can be broken down into 4 fundamental concepts: velocity addition, time dilation, length contraction, and the rear-clock ahead effect.

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A Simple Model for a Sagging Floor.

Here, a sagging floor supported by wooden joists is compared to the deflection of a simply supported beam under uniform load. This comparison is used to construct a simple model for the a sagging floor that may be applied by taking two simple measurements of the floor in question. Finally, a difference in length for the sagging floor (relative a flat floor) is calculated.

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Torque As A Bivector.

The relation for calculating torque is often cast as a cross product, namely that between the position vector relative to the axis and the force at that position. However, in the realm of Clifford Algebras, we may replace this cross product with the exterior product which gives 2-blades as opposed to orthogonal vectors.

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