Tuesday Tattoo : math knuckle tattoo f(x)=1/x x approaches zero…
I really admire people who fall in love with a concept, and feel so strongly about it that they are motivated to have it tattooed on their body.
The highest respect one can give to a symbol is to have it permanently scribed on your own self. It is the most personal commitment one can make.
Having a tattoo of a physics or math equation is surely better than having a tattoo of your latest love-interest’s name; he/she may come and go, but you know for sure that the Euler Identity will always remain true!
If you really want to be certain that the equation you are about to get tattooed on your behind remains correct during your life time, go with a math tattoo; physicists are notorious for mucking around with their equations.
Here are a couple of interesting math tattoos:
The story behind the tattoo:
I got the tattoo because I like the idea of math not being well behaved. That sound’s lame and I really don’t mean that in some kind of A is for Anarchy type way. I just think that its kind of nice that something as perfectly functional as math can kink up around the edges.
Here is another one: e to the x
Photographer’s comment:
My good friends, Nina (L) and Margot (neck/R) are both in the the fields of economics and math. It has some beautiful amazing explanation that I can’t regurgitate well enough to explain. I’ll have them give me a one liner and then I”ll post it here.
