Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
Raymond Smullyan, a Mathematician, Philosopher and author of several outstanding books of logical puzzles, tells, in one of his books, a revealing story. A friend invited him for dinner. He told Smullyan that his teenage son was crazy about Smullyan's books and could not wait to meet him. The friend warned Smullyan not to mention that he is a Mathematician and that Logic is a part of Mathematics because the young fellow hated Mathematics.
Having told this story, would it be wise to announce up front what this site is about? Perhaps against a better judgement, I've put together a manifesto that aims to explain the purpose of this site.
By the way, did you know that...
- There are just five regular polyhedra
- There is order in chaos
- There are trisectable angles that are not constructible
- A continuous function may grow considerably virtually without changing
- 0!=1
- There is a simple solution to the affirmative action problem
- There are really impossible things
- As in philosophy, there are transcendental numbers
- You are wrong if you think Mathematics is not fun
- You can't add apples and oranges but you can add their shapes
- For every object there is a distance at which it looks its best
- You can add apples and oranges
- To get cafe au lait one should carry coffee to milk and not milk to coffee
- C - C = [-1, 1]
- Curves of infinite length may enclose finite areas
- As in the art, there are imaginary and surreal numbers
- There is order in chaos
- One can cut a pie into 8 pieces with three movements
- In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2
- Simple quadrilaterals tessellate the plane
|
Last updated: July 6, 2018 What has changed? |
|Contact| |Front page| |Index|
Copyright © 1996-2017 Alexander Bogomolny