Group Information- Members: 16
- Category: Mathematics
- Founded: Mar 31, 2003
- Language: English
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We want to understand well known important mathematical results better, by exploring different interpretations, different generalizations, different proofs, similar results, appropriateness of naming conventions and notation, and of course, historical context.
All who are interested in either learning or teaching are welcome.
Group Moderator: Walter Vannini, walterv@gbbservices.com
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table proofs
I'm always on the lookout for ways of visualizing mathematical results. In this essay I'm going to restrict myself to pictures. Furthermore, I'm going to
Posted - Mon Aug 6, 2007 7:58 pm
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Walter Vannini
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There are infinitely many primes
For quite a while, I knew of only one proof of the "infinitude of primes", namely Euclid's proof. Over the years, I've come across others, and I've noticed
Posted - Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:45 pm
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Walter Vannini
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Fibonacci numbers completed
The Fibonacci essay I mentioned a few days ago is done. There's now roughly twice the content than there was in the original incomplete version. As before,
Posted - Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:16 pm
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Fibonacci numbers revisited
Properties of Fibonacci numbers are often proved by induction. Although this results in technically correct proofs, I find that proofs by induction usually
Posted - Sat Jul 7, 2007 10:55 pm
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Googleplex?
... Welcome! ... Yes. ... They're kind of the same: they all involve one followed by some number of zeros. But, the NUMBER of zeros is QUITE different. Here's
Posted - Tue May 25, 2004 7:51 am
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