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A record titled This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Ten Living Americans, with commentary by Edward R. Murrow, was released along with the original books. In 2006, a new book called This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women was published. It was a collection of sixty essays from the NPR series, plus twenty ...
Robert Anson Heinlein signing autographs at Worldcon 1976. This I Believe: Our Noble, Essential Decency is an essay written and recorded by Robert A. Heinlein in 1952, as part of the Edward R. Murrow's series "This I Believe" on the CBS Radio Network, generally seen as the most popular of that series.
The essays cover a broad range of topics, including evolution, the workings of the human mind, and science itself. A common focus is the issue of extra-terrestrial life and whether humanity has a supranatural element beyond flesh and blood. [6] Among the more esoteric topics is the question of cockroach consciousness. [7]
The cells in the human body are not outnumbered 10 to 1 by microorganisms. The 10 to 1 ratio was an estimate made in 1972; current estimates put the ratio at either 3 to 1 or 1.3 to 1. [298] The total length of capillaries in the human body is not 100,000 km.
In classical real analysis, one way to define a real number is as an equivalence class of Cauchy sequences of rational numbers.. In constructive mathematics, one way to construct a real number is as a function ƒ that takes a positive integer and outputs a rational ƒ(n), together with a function g that takes a positive integer n and outputs a positive integer g(n) such that
One example I sometimes mention is the Wittgensteins. Three of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s four brothers killed themselves, and Wittgenstein himself often reported the desire. The Wittgensteins were brilliant, hugely wealthy, important members of Viennese society: people who, superficially speaking, ought to have had every reason to live.
Examples of unexpected applications of mathematical theories can be found in many areas of mathematics. A notable example is the prime factorization of natural numbers that was discovered more than 2,000 years before its common use for secure internet communications through the RSA cryptosystem. [127]
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