Math And Fountain Pens

[seffrican]

I do it all the time!

 

 

I recognise that... Lorentz transformations, Michelson + Morely etc...

Pretty soon after that you get to E(K) = m(0) C^2 !!

 

The equation that everyone knows, and no-one understands! It would have been more useful if F = ma had been the one to achieve celebrity status...

 

Except that it's not generally true...and what does the K mean after the E? That's rest energy, not kinetic.

 

The Gauss-Green-Stokes-Ostogradskii theorem is something I normally scribble when trying a new pen, it looks very elegant when written with a broad stub, and the symmetry of the two sides makes for an intellectually pleasing visual too.

[ZachWasniak]

Does anyone else do math with a fountain pen? As was the case with penmanship, I hated math in school and didn't study it once I wasn't forced to in school. When I got into fountain pens last year, I read a post here that said that kids in some European countries (probably Germany and/or France, I don't remember which) used fountain pens for math. That inspired me to renew my math studies and to do it using fountain pens exclusively. When I make a mistake, I just cross it out. Sometimes the crossed out parts contain the seeds of the right answer. It's actually neater than using pencil, because when I use a pencil, I press really hard, and the marks don't erase well. I feel that my fountain pen hobby is helping me to explore other interests that I would not have considered before.

I use them in every Class. I hate pencils, plus, using a fountain pen (or any pen for that matter) will make you more cautious of making mistakes.

[bernardo]

using a fountain pen (or any pen for that matter) will make you more cautious of making mistakes.

 

Agree 100%

[penrivers]

I've passed this thread on to my partner, who I just recently introduced to fountain pens and who even more recently decided to pick up a free Pre-Calc textbook on the internet and work through it.

 

As much as math is something I probably should get back into, I think my take on this is going to be to get back into Symbolic Logic and do that in fountain pen.

Yea. second of secondary school, there is the bifurcation in the way where Jean Piaget is waiting sitting against a tree telling you don't go this way or go this way, I should had hearin him but no I was so full of hubris and proud, sometimes I think I should

go back too, but noop, life is short and I love to read novels, Ah boys, you should get the poetry of maths said the teacher.

[senor47]

And here's some flexy FP convolution:

 

http://i.imgur.com/IW5Zqb4.jpg?1

 

Hi,

 

What pen did you use to write the beautiful math!?

 

Thank you

[dcrosier76]

If only my math notes/homework looked that good on paper.