TWIL #97 - Waves

TWIL #97 - Waves
Photo by Jeremy Bishop / Unsplash

Every week, I share something I learned in the previous seven days. I usually find these while I'm putting my weekly newsletter together but somehow, they don't quite fit!

This week I learned about the hidden maths behind the waves - I'll never look at the sea across from my house in quite the same way.

The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves Crashes Into View | Quanta Magazine
The math of even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major advances toward understanding it.

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