Category: Physics
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Moments, Mass, and Motion #2
If you didn’t read the first post then go read it and come back here! Nearly two centuries before Chebyshev’s systematic approach to moments there lived a mathematical prodigy. A Cambridge graduate, educated on Copernicus and Galileo, he knew about mass and motion but felt bothered by them. You see, they weren’t the mass and…
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Moments, Mass, and Motion #1
The first revelation I ever had about statistics was the universal need for statistics. From physics (keep a pin in that) to government and economics, statistics sheds some light onto otherwise murky complex processes. Statistics empowers us to extract empirical insight from the world through data that would otherwise go unexplored. The second revelation I…