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...
- You can't add apples and oranges but you can add their shapes
- Simple Quadrilaterals Tessellate the Plane
- 1/3 + 1/4 = 7/12
- Sometimes in order to add one has to take the difference
- Some numbers are lucky. 13 is one
- You can't compare two complex numbers
- Simple Quadrilaterals Tessellate the Plane
- In some circumstances index equals the content
- One is morally obligated not to do anything impossible
- A straight line has dimension 1, a plane 2. Fractals have mostly fractional dimension
- One can drill holes that are almost square
- Some numbers are lucky. 13 is one
- There are many things that can be added
- For every object there is a distance at which it looks its best
- Simple quadrilaterals tessellate the plane
- In some circumstances, an index may have a content of its own
- There is something the dead eat but if the living eat it, they die
- The only triangle with rational sides and angles is equilateral.
- There are things distant yet near. There are others that are near yet distant
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