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The idea of the Pythagoreans that all numbers can be expressed as a ratio of two whole numbers. This was disproved by one of Pythagoras' own disciples, Hippasus, who showed that the square root of two is what we today call an irrational number. One story claims that he was thrown off the ship in which he and some other Pythagoreans were sailing ...
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History is a 2005 anthology, edited by Stephen Hawking, of "excerpts from thirty-one of the most important works in the history of mathematics." [1]
A Mathematician's Lament, often referred to informally as Lockhart's Lament, is a short book on mathematics education by Paul Lockhart, originally a research mathematician at Brown University and U.C. Santa Cruz, and subsequently a math teacher at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York City for many years.
Here are 25 of Buffett’s best quips, tips, and adages. ... Warren Buffett's 25 best quotes of all time. Clara Colbert. Updated April 28, 2020 at 2:34 PM.
Walk down Reader's Digest memory lane with these quotes from famous people throughout the decades. The post 100 of the Best Quotes from Famous People appeared first on Reader's Digest.
BEST theorem (graph theory) Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem (partial differential equations) Baily–Borel theorem (algebraic geometry) Baire category theorem (topology, metric spaces) Baker's theorem (number theory) Balian–Low theorem (Fourier analysis) Balinski's theorem (combinatorics) Banach–Alaoglu theorem (functional analysis)
In fact, in a 2023 survey, math ranked only above foreign languages as a subject in terms of people's favorite. 59% of respondents said they liked or loved math when they were in high school.Some ...
Arrow paradox : If we divide time into discrete 0-duration slices, no motion is happening in each of them, so taking them all as a whole, motion is impossible. Aristotle's wheel paradox : Rolling joined concentric wheels seem to trace the same distance with their circumferences, even though the circumferences are different.