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 many things that can be multiplied
- You can add apples and oranges
- How to write an equation of the union of two sets
- Sphere has two sides. However, there are one-sided surfaces
- Much as with people, there are irrational, perfect, complex numbers
- Curves of infinite length may enclose finite areas
- In some circumstances index equals the content
- For every object there is a distance at which it looks its best
- There is something the dead eat but if the living eat it, they die
- No two integers are equidistant from the square root of 2
- 0!=1
- There exist triangular numbers that are also square
- There is order in chaos
- 0!=1
- For every object there is a distance at which it looks its best
- There is a simple solution to the affirmative action problem
- cos(36) = (1 + sqrt(5))/4
- How to write an equation of the union of two sets
- For every object there is a distance at which it looks its best
- There is a simple solution to the affirmative action problem
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