How Math Explains the World.pdf
6 Never the Twain Sha l Meet l It Takes an Adult There are some pleasures that even three-year-olds can enjoy, such as ice cream ...
proof is one in which you assume the negation of a conclusion, show that this leads to a contradiction, and consequently the onl ...
sides extended indefinitely. Look at the side you consider to be the base of the triangle. The “interior angles” referred to abo ...
of the mathematics department there, leading me to wonder if that situa- tion was something like what happened during the Great ...
the vertex angles were acute led to a contradiction. In retrospect, had he chosen the second option, he could possibly have adva ...
substituting an alternative for Playfair’s Axiom. Each of the three worked with “Through each point not on a given line there ex ...
There are good reasons for this. Young mathematicians, especially at prestigious universities, are well aware of the adage “publ ...
constructed a model for a consistent geometry, but merely had convinced himself that one was possible. Gauss concluded his lette ...
against cavalry officers, but stipulated that he be allowed to play a violin piece after every two duels. He won all thirteen du ...
more embittered when his towering achievement—being the first person to publish a consistent non-Euclidean geometry—was taken fr ...
Lobachevsky’s results, having anticipated them, but nonetheless he was intrigued by the methods he had used to derive them. Gaus ...
Mathematics is no different from most other human endeavors, in that there are individuals of estimable achievement but substant ...
of light-years. The latest data, from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, comes down firmly on the side of the Greeks—as b ...
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7 Even Log c Has L mits i i Liar, Liar Back when I was in college and my GPA needed a boost, I would seek out the comforting she ...
It seems pretty much the same—unless the first statement was made by Epimenides! If so, is Epimenides lying with the first state ...
matical meeting. In it, he set the agenda for mathematics in the twentieth century by describing twenty-three critical problems^ ...
The truth value assigned to P AND Q also ref lects common understand- ing of the word and, which requires both P and Q to be tru ...
(TRUE AND NOT TRUE) OR FALSE (TRUE AND FALSE) OR FALSE FALSE OR FALSE FALSE Finally, just as arithmetic statements such as x(yz ...
Peano’s Axioms Numerous formulations of the axioms of arithmetic exist, but the ones that mathematicians and logicians use were ...
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