Educational Annotations

Some of the comics have (more or less) informative annotations on a variety of topics. This is a list of the more educational ones, sorted by subject tags. Some annotations are listed under multiple subjects.

Comics tagged: mathematics

• 470 - Group theory; binary operators; abelian groups; rings
• 552 - René Descartes; "Congito ergo sum"; Cartesian coordinates
• 691 - Parsnips; turnips; imaginary numbers
• 746 - De Moivre's theorem
• 781 - Mazes; solving algorithms
• 882 - Euclid; kebabs
• 974 - Fugu; Poisson distribution; histograms versus bar graphs
• 1068 - Gödel's incompleteness theorem
• 1186 - Razors; nanotechnology; fractals
• 1210 - Q.E.D
• 1276 - Vector fields; curl; gradient; potential
• 1280 - Manifolds; non-Euclidean geometry; geometry of the Universe
• 1363 - Rock, Paper, Scissors; game theory
• 1476 - Erdős numbers; Bacon numbers; Erdős-Bacon numbers; Natalie Portman
• 1615 - Sextants; navigation
• 1629 - Ciphers; codes
• 1640 - Mathematical functions; Fourier transforms
• 1656 - Pirate puzzle; applying "perfect" logic to reality
• 1735 - Greatest common divisors; Euclid's algorithm; Vichy France; 1930s European politics
• 1807 - Fermat's last theorem
• 1845 - Gödel's incompleteness theorem; formal mathematical logic
• 1878 - Sectors; geometry; science fictional administrational units
• 1960 - Complex numbers; applications to wave theory; Riemann hypothesis
• 1962 - Orders of magnitude
• 2011 - Eigenvectors, eigenvalues, and eigenspaces
• 2292 - Integers; rational number; real numbers; countable infinity; uncountable infinity; Cantor's diagonalisation argument
• 2317 - Ackermann function; Graham's number
• 2327 - Median filter
• 2339 - Banach-Tarski theorem
• 2351 - Vehicle maintenance cost calculation
• 2653 - Bootstrap resampling
• 3189 - Matroids; Transylvanian lottery problem
• 3289 - Trigonometry; surveying
• 3374 - Decimals; recurring decimals; infinite limits; 0.999...
• 3449 - Deterministic processes; randomness; chaos; stochastic processes; stochastic calculus
• 3727 - Cardinal numbers; aleph numbers; the continuum hypothesis
• 3915 - Matrices; inverse matrices; determinants; matrix eigenvalues
• 3937 - Hamiltonian paths; the travelling salesman problem
• 3944 - Portmanteau words; portmanteau luggage; Oliver Heaviside; complex numbers in electrical engineering; the Heaviside layer
• 4035 - The axiom of choice
• 4337 - Hilbert's Grand Hotel; infinite series; topology; Hausdorff spaces
• 4684 - Binomial theorem, binomial distribution

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