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Mathematicians And 'The Man Who Knew Infinity'
Inside Science ^ | 29 Apr, 2016 | Ramin Skibba

Posted on 04/30/2016 8:09:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: RipSawyer

It must be 9 instead of 6.


41 posted on 04/30/2016 1:03:14 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: windcliff; stylecouncilor

Ping for Netflix/Amazon....


42 posted on 04/30/2016 1:21:27 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: jpsb

“destroying hundreds if not thousands of ancient libraries. They are scum.”

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jpsb
I am no apologist for Islam, but somehow I can look at it from their side. Imagine you genuinely believed you had been given access to the whole truth, that no further development was necessary. This “Truth” was inconsistent with the cultures around you (an advantage, from your point of view), and that clinging to that led you to great success. It would turn most people’s heads. Other sources of information would be automatically discredited and rightfully marked for destruction. It’s appalling, but it makes a sort of internal sense.


43 posted on 04/30/2016 1:21:55 PM PDT by Stirner
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To: Stirner

Yes I understand your argument, however the destruction of other cultural achievements is despicable and only Islam does that.


44 posted on 04/30/2016 1:28:39 PM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: RipSawyer
This is really weird, 1 cubed is 1 and 12 cubed is 1728 which adds up to 1729 alright but six cubed is 216 and ten cubed is 1000, that adds up to 1216, nowhere close to 1729. What kind of booboo is this?

The six should have been a nine.

45 posted on 04/30/2016 1:28:48 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Gamecock

Chuck Norris has counted to infinity. Twice.


46 posted on 04/30/2016 1:32:28 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: MtnClimber
Ramanujan tells Hardy that the Hindu goddess Namagiri writes the formulas on his tongue each night.

See, he tells how he does it, but nobody believes him. No one in the entire world could do what he did, but everyone is absolutely certain he was wrong about what he repeatedly experienced while he did it.

You know why we can't have nice things? That's why we can't have nice things!

47 posted on 04/30/2016 1:33:39 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

LOL


48 posted on 04/30/2016 1:45:00 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: MtnClimber

Here you have a guy from the poorest of poor nations who teaches himself math but here in the USA we have teaches giving a failing grade to a person who says 2+2=4 because common core math says it is not correct.


49 posted on 04/30/2016 2:09:10 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Gamecock

Izat a zero or a one?


50 posted on 04/30/2016 5:12:50 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: RipSawyer

Obviously, the Royal Society is also a fake.


51 posted on 04/30/2016 5:17:04 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: jpsb

Very good. Arabs coopted through the sword what they are given credit for.


52 posted on 04/30/2016 5:41:48 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Talisker
The six should have been a nine.

The answer (which is one cubed plus two cubed) was given in Post #27, which is three cubed, eh?

53 posted on 04/30/2016 10:32:45 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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It's a movie, and Hollywood doesn't make documentaries, so, grain of salt.

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54 posted on 05/01/2016 11:11:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: RipSawyer

Right, it’s 9 cubed plus 10 cubed.


55 posted on 05/01/2016 1:34:58 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: imardmd1

Ten cubed plus nine cubed.


56 posted on 05/01/2016 2:02:24 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: MtnClimber

The short article doesn’t begin to do Ramanujan justice. He rediscovered hundreds of years if not millenia of maths proofs entirely on his own, as independently as a solitary lotus flower.


57 posted on 05/01/2016 2:02:46 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OMorgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: samtheman

I already said that back in Post #27, a couple of minutes after reading the original article. I’m glad everybody else picked up on it. You did know that 729 is (one cubed plus two cubed) cubed, right? You figured that out?


58 posted on 05/01/2016 3:03:14 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Boojum

Yes


59 posted on 05/01/2016 3:08:17 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: Gamecock

I told that joke to a S.C. redneck once. He looked puzzled, said he looked in his pants and got to twenty but was mystified for getting to twenty one. I asked him if he counted his finger he was pointing to fingers and toes with ... his look of ‘Ah hah’ was priceless.


60 posted on 05/01/2016 5:12:45 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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