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 is order in chaos
- To get cafe au lait one should carry coffee to milk and not milk to coffee
- There are really impossible things
- One is morally obligated to do everything impossible
- 0!=1
- In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2
- One is morally obligated to do everything impossible
- You can add apples and oranges
- One can cut a pie into 8 pieces with three movements
- Complex number to a complex power may be real
- One can drill holes that are almost square
- You are wrong if you think Mathematics is not fun
- A straight line has dimension 1, a plane 2. Fractals have mostly fractional dimension
- Bisector of an imaginary angle may be real
- A straight line has dimension 1, a plane 2. Fractals have mostly fractional dimension
- In some circumstances, an index may have a content of its own
- How to write an equation of the union of two sets
- You are wrong if you think Mathematics is not fun
- At any given time in New York there live at least two people with the same number of hairs
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