We Now Know the Sixty-Trillionth Binary Digit of Pi-Squared | Geekosystem
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. … Continue reading More books
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In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. — John von Neumann via Mathematical Intuition—What Is It? « Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP.
Duel at Dawn: math can do that to you
In Hungary, winters can be long (so I’m assuming). Before television, intelligent Hungarians tried many different pastimes to make it through those dark days. One of these, János Bolyai, resorted to non-Euclidean geometry. Bolyai wasn’t warning his son off gambling, or poetry, or a poorly chosen love affair. He was trying to keep him away from … Continue reading Duel at Dawn: math can do that to you
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