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April 8, 2008I 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.
Horaayy..there are 3 comment(s) for me so far ;)
I believe the F (x) + 1/x stands for the person, whos name starts with f,whenever their is a bracket enclosing a individual unknown constant(letter) it means to multiply the previous numeral by that constant, (so in this case multiply F by X) X is in the form of a letter because it is unknown, but in mathematics disregarding physics it stands for a number, and 1/x in this case i believe stands for 1 bieng him, the brackets meaning is its counterpart name “over… could also be on top of in this scenario” the denominator on the bottom meaning X number of girls. So the whole thing would stand for (well use frank as an axample name) Frank times whichever number of girls (I assume)= Frank ontop of or over the girls. Its most likely wrong but atleast its creative
his tattoo says f(x)=1/x !!! it is a simple function i.e. y=1/x. It has nothing to do with adding or multiplying F by x!!!
In my opinion this function is very well behaved!!!
i admit, it looks cool
but it has no meaning; this = that
wow! for what?
I think math tattoos would be much cooler if the function actually described something that occurs and effects you.
since as x approaches infinity the function approaches zero it would be cool if this guy was a fighter or something and he’s trynna say as his fist approaches you you approach zero or some such thing like that.
But No!!
But anyway his reason is interesting/cool enough, indeed the function is not a straight line!
-Out-
p.s. I couldn’t help it, physicists/engineers/mathematicians are naturally arrogant about this kinda stuff
p.p.s. my dad’s name is frank!!! wow
Rotate f(x)=1/x around the x-axis, and it makes Gabriel’s horn, which is definately worthy of a tattoo. Finite surface area with infinite volume. Simply badass.