I am in here.
I love it when people get caught out trying to snow others with fake math references. Now it’s the turn of Herman Cain.
Finding out that [Herman] Cain was a math major gives me the same flush of embarrassment I get when I hear that a Jew did something bad. As for bamboozling people with mathematics, thats just an old creationist trick.
Archimedes sent a fax to XXI century | Image of the Week, Scientific American Blog Network.
Love Among the Equations | Cocktail Party Physics, Scientific American Blog Network.
August 17, 1601
God made the integers, all else is the work of man.
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo of wool. It grosses 200 tons. It is bound for Le Havre. The mainmast is broken, the cabin boy is on deck, there are 12 passengers aboard, the wind is blowing East-North-East, the clock points to a quarter past three in the afternoon. It is the month of May. How old is the captain?
We Now Know the Sixty-Trillionth Binary Digit of Pi-Squared | Geekosystem.
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I have assigned myself the task of listening to Bill Bryson‘s A Short History of Nearly Everything by the time of next Saturday night’s lecture at the Mercantile.This book sits currently (in my mental bookcase if not my physical bookcase) with Richard Dawkins and my fancy anniversary illustrated copy of The Origin of the Species. It continues my fascination with discovering how the world works.
That is why I loved math: it was like suddenly being let in on the secrets of the universe. The fundamental theorem of calculus describes the whole universe.
