Math
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Evariste Galois. 1811-1832, Laura Toti Rigatelli (ISBN 978-3-7643-5410-7, Birkhäuser)
I found this biography of Evariste Galois after reading about him in Eric Temple Bell’s Men of Mathematics. It is part of the Vita Mathematica series of the publisher with biographies of mathematicians, most of them published in German. The author is an Italian professor in mathematics with a special interest in the history of…
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Bombelli’s formula to calculate the square root of 2
We owe following formula to Bombelli, approximately 1572 :
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Some strange formulas containing pi
A couple of series to calculate pi, first one is from Leibniz
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pi approximations
Some approximations for pi :
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The Tesseract: Origin, Meaning, and Its Marvel Connection
I first heard of the term Tesseract in the movie Captain America: The First Avenger. The Tesseract is also called the cube in the movie and it contains the space stone, one of the six infinity stones. In the movie The Avengers it is used to create a wormhole to allow the Chitauri to invade…
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Understanding Mathematics: A Journey of Familiarity
‘In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.‘― John von Neumann
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A Tour of the Calculus, David Berlinski (ISBN 978-0-679-74788-8, Vintage Books)
A Tour of the Calculus is a strange and unique book. According to text on the back it is likely to become a classic as Gödel, Escher, Bach. But I doubt that very much. The book was written in 1995 and so far I haven’t come across it in any list of classics. I also…
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