Mike Tate
Math
Moving points reveal hidden distances and boundaries.
🧠 About
MikeTateMath.org is the workshop of Mike Tate, an independent researcher and developer working across mathematics, ancient languages and scripts, esoteric history, and interactive learning.
The work starts from one question — what changes, what survives, and what does the surviving structure tell us? — and follows it through modular arithmetic, prime distributions, ancient scripts, word histories, mythology, and game design. He builds free, portable tools — games, visualizers, audiobooks, and archives — that turn abstract systems into things you can run, hear, and test: ModularMath.org, the ARGO NAVIS harmonic archive, The Coiners audiobook series, and the Theseus Cycle.
He works without institutional affiliation and publishes his methods and sources for anyone to inspect. Everything here is built to be run, not just read.
Core Philosophy
- Freely shared tools over locked institutions
- Dynamic visuals over static proofs
- Recursive clarity over linear complexity
- Symbolic intelligence over abstract noise
- Elegant coherence over bloated formalism
Featured Articles
Taming the Unsolvable
A new approach to the quintic equation using modular resonance and recursive symmetry.
Bridges Without Nails
Exploring the architecture of mathematical thought and harmonic unification.
Kepler’s Equation
Recursive motion and mirrored logic in orbital mathematics.
Method map · 01–03
From signal to structure
A compact guide to the site’s central move: reduce a system, act on it, and track what remains coherent.
Reduce
Quiet the noise
n ↦ n mod 72
Place a number on a repeating wheel so its hidden cycles become visible.
Track
Watch what survives
pattern → transform → invariant
Let the form change, then isolate the rule that remains stable through the motion.
Translate
Turn symbols into motion
prime → residue → rhythm → map
Convert abstract notation into playable steps, visual systems, and memorable structure.
Media collection
Watch & Listen
Visual mathematics, project walkthroughs, and five original compositions.
