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http://www.ams.org/notices/200808/tx080800930p.pdf

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.ams.org/notices/200808/tx080800930p.pdf Who Is Alexander Grothendieck?

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The Science Creative Quarterly & FIBONACCI POEMS

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.scq.ubc.ca/fibonacci-poems/ Shyness Fish dive deeply, mouths agape, fins proud and ragged, filtering the oceans apart until shimmer-hooked and then flopping in boat bottoms, when gills heave, gasp, drowning in air; eyes glaze like dropped marbles, clouded … Continue reading

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Math Games: Evil Numbers

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_10_04_04.html From the page: “Evil numbers are easy to find, as one might expect with an arbitrarily defined property. Interestingly, π is doubly evil. Many numbers aren’t evil. For example, e isn’t evil. The important sums … Continue reading

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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

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John Forbes Nash – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stumbleupon Review of : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash For me Capitalism, Socialism, Anarchism, Libertarianism, $What.Eh.Vuh-ism are in the main part grotesque fictions foisted upon us by self-important, self-aggrandising arseholes; rich in chattering class knowledge and ‘education’, but utterly impoverished when it comes to … Continue reading

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