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...
- Curves of infinite length may enclose finite areas
- Almost every integer has the digit 3 in it
- There are things distant yet near. There are others that are near yet distant
- There are many things that can be added
- Some numbers are lucky. 13 is one
- Bisector of an imaginary angle may be real
- Almost every integer has the digit 3 in it
- Falsity implies anything
- 1/3 + 1/4 = 7/12
- There are really impossible things
- You can't compare two complex numbers
- Demographic tests show that the person least likely to buy Wired magazine is an American schoolteacher
- You can't compare two complex numbers
- You are wrong if you think Mathematics is not fun
- To get cafe au lait one should carry coffee to milk and not milk to coffee
- The Length of the diagonal of the unit square equals the square root of 2
- You can't add apples and oranges but you can add their shapes
- One is morally obligated not to do anything impossible
- Some numbers are square, yet others are triangular
- You are wrong if you think Mathematics is not fun
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