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Monthly Archives: February 2006
How They Do It
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.scg.uwaterloo.ca/~hchcheng/do-it.html Doin’ it : A – B Aerodynamicists 1. Aerodynamicists do it in drag. Algebraic geometers 1. Algebraic geometers do it for variety. 2. Algebraic geometers do it on the cubic three-fold. Algebraists 1. Algebraists do … Continue reading
Problem: To Catch a Lion in
Stumbleupon Review Problem: To Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert. 4 Contributions from Computer Science 4.1 The search method We assume that the lion is most likely to be found in the direction to the north of the point … Continue reading
Problem: To Catch a Lion in
Stumbleupon Review Problem: To Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert. 3 Experimental Physics Methods 3.1 The thermodynamics method We construct a semi-permeable membrane which lets everything but lions pass through. This we drag across the desert. 3.2 The atomic … Continue reading
Problem: To Catch a Lion in
Stumbleupon Review Problem: To Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert. 2 Theoretical Physics Methods 2.1 The Dirac method We assert that wild lions can ipso facto not be observed in the Sahara desert. Therefore, if there are any lions … Continue reading
How To Catch a Lion
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.scg.uwaterloo.ca/~hchcheng/catch_a_lion.html Problem: To Catch a Lion in the Sahara Desert. 1. Mathematical Methods 1.1 The Hilbert (axiomatic) method We place a locked cage onto a given point in the desert. After that we introduce the following … Continue reading
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Proof Techniques
Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.scg.uwaterloo.ca/~hchcheng/proof_guide.html Proof Techniques Methods for getting people to believe you (as good as, if not better than, proof). A collection of proof techniques that will prove invaluable to both mathematicians and members of the general public. … Continue reading
AND what of Death? an old man
Stumbleupon Review AND what of Death? an old man asked. He then said: Through the ages wise men have explained Death. Each had a different explanation. Each was right. Each was wrong. And what of your explanation, oh Master? he … Continue reading
EVEN the tallest man cannot
Stumbleupon Review EVEN the tallest man cannot walk through the Grand Canyon without feeling conspicuous. Kehlog Albran – The Profit
A man asked
Stumbleupon Review A man asked, What of Ignorance, Master? He then said: If every man was a genius, there would be no idiots, and no gauge for the intelligence of man. For every ignorant ill-bred man, there exists an opposite … Continue reading
EXCUSE me, Master, a short
Stumbleupon Review EXCUSE me, Master, a short rabbi asked, Why doesn’t a nice person like you have a wife? He then said: I have studied philosophy for many years, and through my travels I have communicated and meditated with nature. … Continue reading