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 really impossible things
- Sometimes in order to add one has to take the difference
- Complex number to a complex power may be real
- In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2
- There are many things that can be added
- Simple Quadrilaterals Tessellate the Plane
- There is order in chaos
- You are wrong if you think Mathematics is not fun
- Complex number to a complex power may be real
- The word 'fraction' derives from the Latin fractio - to break. However, there are continuous fractions
- In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2
- 12+3-4+5+67+8+9=100 and there exists at least one other representation of 100 with 9 digits in the right order and math operations in between
- No two integers are equidistant from the square root of 2
- Among all shapes with the same area circle has the shortest perimeter
- You can add apples and oranges
- In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2
- Among all shapes with the same area circle has the shortest perimeter
- There are trisectable angles that are not constructible
- Every infinite set contains uncountably many nested subsets
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