Math
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The Discovery of Pure Mathematics
‘Pure Mathematics was discovered by Boole in a work which he called The Laws of Thought.’― Bertrand Russell
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The Poet Mathematician
‘It is true that a mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a perfect mathematician.’― Karl Wilhelm Theodor Weierstrass
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Hamiltonian words
“I have very long admired Ptolemy’s description of his great astronomical master, Hipparchus, as a labor-loving and truth-loving man. Be such my epitath.” ― William Rowan Hamilton
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Fibonacci Primes
The Fibonacci series is often mentioned so most people are probably familiar with it. It starts with 0, 1, … and all other numbers are obtained by taking the sum of the 2 preceding numbers in the series so we get : 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144,…
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Curious Equations (1)
Came across this equation. Can be proven by simply calculating both sides. (t – 8)3 + (t – 1)3 + (t + 1)3 + (t + 8)3 = (t – 7)3 + (t – 4)3 + (t + 4)3 + (t + 7)3
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Delen door 2
Een man vraagt aan een goochelaar wat zijn specialiteit is. “Meisjes doormidden zagen”, is het antwoord. “Dat is moeilijk zeker ?” “Helemaal niet, ik kon het als kind al.” “Heb je dan zusters ?” “Jawel, drieënhalf.”
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A History of Pi, Petr Beckmann (ISBN 978-0312381851, St Martin’s Press)
(a history of) Pi first came out in 1970 and the author was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado. Beckmann fled Czechoslovakia at the age of 14 to escape the Nazis. In the introduction Beckmann states that he could write his own personal history of pi without having to worry about…
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Blaise Logic
“I have made this letter longer than usual because I lacked the time to make it short.” ― Blaise Pascal
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Royal Roads
“O King, through the country, there are royal roads and roads for common citizens, but in geometry there is one road for all.” Menaechmus (4th century BC) in answer to his pupil Alexander the Great asking for a shortcut to geometry.
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