October 2011
3 posts
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the...”
– Margaret Mead - US anthropologist & popularizer of anthropology (1901 - 1978)
September 2011
4 posts
1st clue into Snape's past
whatthefawkes:
Tell me, Potter, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?’ In the Victorian flower language, asphodel is a type of lily with the meaning ‘my regrets follow you to the grave’. Wormwood symbolizes absence and great sorrow. If you combine that…
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
5 posts
“June 16th 1799: Gauss received his Ph.D. at age 22 for his dissertation giving...”
Imagination
David Hilbert one day noticed that a certain student had stopped attending class. When told that the student had decided to stop mathematics to become a poet, Hilbert replied: “Good - he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician.”
“757
757 is a prime number.
757 has a representation as a sum of two squares:...”
– MAA website
May 2011
12 posts
“Theorem. Every positive integer is interesting.
Proof. Assume for...”
– Internet
Confusion
Q: Why do mathematicians often confuse Christmas and Halloween?
A: Because Oct 31 = Dec 25.
“Who moves among fool’s company
must truly grieve for long,
for ill the company...”
– Dhammapada
“A promising PhD candidate was presenting his thesis at his final examination. He...”
– Internet
April 2011
33 posts
“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what...”
– Matt Hardy - An American Photographer
“‘You’ll get over it…’ It’s the clichés that cause...”
– Unknown
“I can give you a six-word formula for success: “Think things through -...”
– Edward Rickenbacker - an American fighter ace in World War I
Lessons
Alice: And how many hours a day did you do lessons?
Mock Turtle: Ten hours the first day, nine the next, and so on.
Alice: What a curious plan!
Gryphon: That's the reason they're called lessons. Because they lessen from day to day.
Adapted from Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carrol
“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others...”
– Lewis Carrol (Alice in Wonderland) : Nice wordplay. Try to understand what it means.
Awesome HOUSE music: Does anybody know the name of...
“Chances and choices woven together,
Cover the ground to which we enter.”
– ABK
“Sometimes the snow comes down in June
Sometimes the sun goes ‘round the...”
– Vanessa Williams (American pop and R&B singer)
“Science without mathematics is science in a vacuum.”
– Unknown
“Leadership is the ability to fix a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
– Anonymous
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and...”
– James Anthony Froude (British historian 1818-1894)