Equations, tattooed into our lives

May 2, 2009

Tattoo of Alison, a high-school physics teacher - from Carl Zimmers Collection, at the Loom

Tattoo of Alison, a high-school physics teacher - from Carl Zimmer's Collection, at the Loom

Can’t tell which equation is the Mandelbrot Set, which the hydrostatic equation, which the description of entropy?  Can’t figure out why the delta, and otherwise confused?  Alison explains it all, at Carl Zimmer’s blog, The Loom.

It’s relatively clear that she didn’t get the tats to use them to cheat on any exams.