“I am reminded of the austere style of his countryman Lagrange, who boasted that his Mécanique analytique contained no pictures to guide the reader; and later their compatriot Dieudonné, who in the preface to his celebrated Foundations of Modern Analysis, warns his audience that the tome will contain no such sweetmeats as pictures or diagrams, […]
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Magazine: Mathematicians & Bears issue
The special Mathematicians & Bears issue (vol. 17, no. 3) of the magazine (the Annals of Improbable Research) is now online. It’s got lots about heads and lots about mathematicians and their problems, and about bears, and much more. The pleasing-paper version was mailed to subscribers a while ago. Click on the magazine cover (below) to […]
Mathematicians on ham sandwiches
The Ham Sandwich Theorem has been a treat and a spur to mathematicians for more than half a century. There was a bit of a kerfuffle about who invented it, but that question did get settled. The Ham Sandwich Theorem cropped up in a branch of mathematics called algebraic topology. The theorem describes a particular truth about […]