Showing posts with label Pythagoras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pythagoras. Show all posts

Saturday, December 17, 2016

2016: The Year in Review

Q1: Bowie dead. Rain shut downs Mauritius, again. Ish will sue investigators. What Labour DNA is made up of. Obama in Havana. Can't count on Vishnu for an economic miracle.

Q2: Pythaghoras in boots gone. Doves cry. Leicester does twice better than points target. Private sector has no monopoly of common sense. The Greatest dies. Union not exactly happy with former advisor. Top three general elections. Mauritius has more important things to worry about than Brexit.

Q3. Jesse passes away. Poverty far from being eradicated. Galileo hops to Jupiter with two buddies. Gisele walks. Usain bolts to record wins. Budget misses boatShoppers avoid meat. Policy errors cause for massive poverty. Quieting the clock of our constitution.

Q4. Trump chances are real. Two years gone and still no miracle. Unions stop signing of controversial TISA agreement. How much we can learn from the US election process. Sithanen toohrooh approaches a trillion rupees. Rain shortens Porlwi by light. The Donald is Potus.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

How a Narrow Margin Kept Mathematicians Busy

For more than 350 years after it prevented a frenchman from sketching a demonstration of a theorem which includes the famous one by Pythagoras as a special case. This extremely well-researched and written book chronicles the contributions of outstanding mathematicians over that long journey until it was solved in 1994. It's not everyday that math is on the front pages of the New York Times, is it?