Mathematics thread ~ all crazy people are invited

We are all bizrre deep inside.
The law of probability says so...

 

So, you want to say that we are all crazy mathematicians deep inside... Well, that's not so wrong.

Well, another math-joke, the one of the professors on P.M.F. tells students every year:
"There are only 10 types of people in this world:
those who understand binary and those who don't."


This one here is the first that does not come from P.M.F. I found it on the net:

THIRTEEN MISUNDERSTANDINGS
IN THE
HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS

In the interest of historical accuracy let it be known that ....

1) Fibonacci's daughter was not named "Bunny".

2) Michael Rolle was not Danish, and did not call his daughter "Tootsie".

3) William Horner was not called "Little-Jack" by his friends.

4) The "G" in G. Peano does not stand for "grand".

5) Rene Descartes' middle name is not "push".

6) Isaac Barrow's middle name is not "wheel".

7) There is no such place as the University of Wis-cosine,
and if there was, the motto of their mathematics
department would not be "Secant ye shall find."

8) Although Euler is pronounced oil-er, it does not follow
that Euclid is pronounced oi-clid.

9) Franklin D. Roosevelt never said "The only thing we have
to sphere is sphere itself."

10) Fibonacci is not a shortened form of the Italian name that
is actually spelled: F i bb ooo nnnnn aaaaaaaa ccccccccccccc
ccccccccccccccccccccc iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

11) It is true that August Mobius was a difficult and opinionated man.
But he was not so rigid that he could only see one side to every
question.

12) It is true that Johannes Kepler had an uphill struggle in explaining
his theory of elliptical orbits to the other astronomers of his time.
And it is also true that his first attempt was a failure. But it is not
true that after his lecture the first three questions he was asked were
"What is elliptical?", "What is an orbit?", and "What is a planet?

13) It is true that primitive societies use only rough approximations
for the known constants of mathematics. For example, the northern
tribes of Alaska consider the ratio of the circumference to the
diameter of a circle to be 3. But it is not true that the value of 3
is called Eskimo pi.
Incidentally, the survival of these tribes is dependent upon government
assistance, which is not always forthcoming. For example, the Canadian
firm of Tait and Sons sold a stock of defective compasses to the
government at half-price, and the government passed them onto the
northern natives.
Hence the saying among these peoples: "He who has a Tait's is lost."

 

lol, Malkie's got that in his sig.

 

I heard that one too. It is in our Informatics cabinet in school. Looks like your professor betrayed you.

Fibonacci's daughter was not named "Bunny".
lol

 

Hahaha!

The world is not spinning around P.M.F., Igore.

 

Oh no! I've been punked!
But I swear, that is the thing professor tells us every year. I thought he made it up.

 

Anyways, who is that Fibonacci guy?

 

Fibonacci is actualy Leonardo Pisano, the best European mathematician in medieval. I've first heard about him in Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Fibonacci's biggest contribution for the math we know today is that he was one of the first people to introduce the Hindu-Arabic number system into Europe - the positional system we use today - based on ten digits with its decimal point and a symbol for zero.
He also gave us the line of numbers:

1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21...

...in which the next number is sum of the previous two.

 

Yes, I also heard about him in 'Da Vinci Code' but I forgot all about it.

How come he's named Fibonacci if his real name is Leonardo Pisano?

 

We don't learn history of mathematics on P.M.F., Ana. Noe in Highschool, for that matter. Amart, where have you learned this by the way.

Anyway, my room mate studies history and I helped him with a task about renesans scientist. I remember that he got his other name due to his father Bonacci. So son of Bonacci - fillio di Bonacci - Fibonacci.

 

Hm. Sounds logical...

 

Indeed. Math and logic are interwined. One couldn't exist without the other.

 

We haven't learn about Fibonacci at school. The only guy we really learned about in Math is Gauss; the guy with complex numberes. Anyway, I was interested about Fibonacci him after reading The Da Vinci Code and I wanted to find out a little more about this guy, so I looked on Internet. Still, I didn't know his father was named Bonacci.

BTW, nice new avatar, Malak.

 

You didn't learn about Pythagoras?

 

Sure we did. But by thiy 'learning' I ment the biography.
Usualy, during the school year, I mention the name of Pythagoras at least once a day.

 

Hmm, well, Pythagoras was one of the only bits of Maths I was brilliant at. Shame I got gradually worse at Maths as time went on. Best at Forst School, the slipped down into 3rd best at middle school, even slipping down into 4th whilst still at Middle school. Then slipped down to 8th in Upper School, and within two years I was so spent I slipped down to 28th.

I suck

 

At least you don't have problem with '-' that somehow transforms itself into '+', like I do.
I can learn anything, but I will always make some silly, stupid mistakes in exam. Everything is perfectly done in theory, but I somehow manage to write '-' instead of '+' and I blow up the whole thing. I don't know why this happens to me in exams. And things like that happen only in Math exams. It is like I'm cursed or something. Fizyk said he had the same problem and that I should go and study Informatics.

I was best in Math in my year in Elementary school. I'm nothing special in Highschool.

BTW, what area of Mathematics have you studied last school year?

 

Arithmetic, Algebra, Pythagorean Triplets, Area, Volume, Shape Space Time, Statistics, etc.

Probably more, but I can't remember them.

 

I always sucked in Trigonometry. That is one of the thiungs you learn in second year, isn't it Amon?

 

Thats one of them, Trig. I hate it. Especially Trig Graphs, all of the weird wavy things. Cosine graphs, bleh.

 

I love Trigonometry. Probably becouse I'm donig it better that any other area of Mathematics.

 

I also sucked at logaritms.

 

I also sucked at logaritms.

[Anakin] I HATE THEM!!! [/Anakin]
I hate logaritms. They are not very difficult, but they are really ****ed up.

 

Not difficult? It gave me nightmares!!!

 

Logaritms are the best.
No, trigonometry is best.
No, differential calculus is the best.
E, no, law of probability is the best...

Hell, Math is the best!!!