http://thenerdiestshirts.com/blog A blog about science, mathematics, coding and nerdy shirts. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:32:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_233" align="alignleft" width="352" caption="Click on the image to zoom in on design"][/caption]When you view nature from afar, the scientific description of evolution may seem no more plausible than the religious idea that we were created by a supernatural being as we are today. When you look into the actual ... http://thenerdiestshirts.com/blog/evolution-shirt-coccyx/ [caption id="attachment_189" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Click on the image above to zoom"][/caption]May 25th was designated Nerd Pride Day / Geek Pride Day in 2006 in Spain. Since then, it has spread through blogs to the rest of the world. This year there will be physical gatherings, special programs on The Science ... http://thenerdiestshirts.com/blog/nerd-pride-day/ [caption id="attachment_173" align="alignleft" width="287" caption="Click on the image to zoom"][/caption]At the intersection of set theory, number theory, and combinatorics is the Calkin-Wilf tree, a beautiful and relatively recent mathematical construction. If there is a 1-1 correspondence between a set and the integers, then the set is called countable. Cantor proved that ... http://thenerdiestshirts.com/blog/math-shirt-cw/ [caption id="attachment_138" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Click on the image to zoom"][/caption]One of the most intriguing aspects of mathematics is the connectivity between its branches. A great example is the topological proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra states that any nonconstant polynomial has a root in the ... http://thenerdiestshirts.com/blog/math-shirt-fta/ [caption id="attachment_148" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Click on the image to zoom"][/caption]One of the fundamental scientific achievements of the 20th century was the development of quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of small objects such as subatomic particles. Small objects don't behave like billiard balls. We are still trying to understand all ... http://thenerdiestshirts.com/blog/physics-shirt-schrodingers-lolcat/ Object oriented programming is one of the key advancements in computer programming in the past few decades. Describing systems as objects with properties and methods which interact with each other allows programmers to think about problems naturally and to reuse code libraries much more efficiently than in less powerful computing ... http://thenerdiestshirts.com/blog/geek-onesie/ [caption id="attachment_145" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Click on the image to zoom in."][/caption] At first glance, the shirt on the left looks like a soccer jock shirt - but it's actually a very nerdy math shirt. A soccer ball (European football) usually has 12 pentagons and 20 hexagons, arranged in a highly symmetric fashion. ... http://thenerdiestshirts.com/blog/math-shirt-t-icosahedron/