From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 22:19:00 MDT
scerir wrote:
>"Mathematics is that study which knows nothing of observation,
>nothing of experiment, nothing of induction, nothing of causation."
>Thomas Henry Huxley...
>
>"Gauss has called mathematics a science of the eye." Sylvester in
>excerpt of address to British Association 1869 (WOM, p. 1760)
>
I love mathematics, but the mad scientists do have certain advantages. With
them its all "Fools! I'll destroy you all!" and "Bwaaaahahahahahaaaa"
and cool looking electrical gazazzafratzes that go bzzzt and bubbling
beakers and such.
We mad mathematicians need something analogous. Granted there
was a popular movie recently with something close to a mad
mathematician, A Beautiful Mind.
We could have a universal hand symbol like the street gangs have.
I propose the traditional extended thumb up, forefinger foreward
and bird finger mutually perpendicular, forming the XYZ coordinate
system.
For a mathematical evil laugh, I suppose we could use... what?
bweeeeheheheheheheeeee? Or would that sound too much like the
elk mating call?
I have found 6 odd numbers which are kilo-damn-good, which
means the sum of the factors of the number equals the number
to within one part per million. spike
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