Thursday, April 24, 2008

What is mathematics?

Paul Erdos said mathematics is like a machine which converts coffee into theorems and proof.
Marcus in his book "Finding Moonshine" says mathematician is a pattern searcher.
Lord Kelvin asked the question, whom do you call a mathematician?
He answered a mathematician is a person who finds the integral of e^(-x^2) from plus infinity to minus infinity as easy as you find 2x2=4.

Sunday, December 09, 2007

Sport

Rather disappointing performance by Arsenal today. They lost 2-1 against boro.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Diary

After a good six months I managed to get a lovely bike ride around the local county lanes. Hope to do the same tomorrow. The weather seems to be getting better and really looking forward to the summer.

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Mathematical Jokes

Cos(x), sin(x) and e^(x) go to a party. Sin(x) and cos(x) are partying away but e^(x) is miserable and anti social. Sin(x) and cos(x) go up to e^(x) and say 'what's wrong, why don't you integrate?'
It doesn't make any difference does it?

Thursday, September 07, 2006

Beautiful Mathematics Formulae

Mathematics
It is amazing how 2 divergent series and sequence converge to give Euler's constant:
As n goes to infinity we have (1+1/2+1/3+1/4+...+1/n)-log(n)=0.577.