Much Ado About Numbers: Chapter 0.000000001
“We’ve know these must exist for centuries; all anyone has to do is take one apple and cut it in two in order to see the problem.”
Never thought of it this way.
“Pythagoras was born on the Greek island of Samos, and led an eventful life during which he traveled to Egypt where he was influenced greatly by their philosophers and customs, was taken as a prisoner of war to Babylon where he learned mathematics, music and sciences, before returning home, to Samos, and then moving to Croton, in Southern Italy.”
He was taken as a prisoner and learned mathematics. That is some torture.
“The speed at which a trained abacus user can calculate sums is remarkable, and proficient users are even able to visualize the movement of beads in their heads in order to achieve astonishing feats of mental arithmetic.”
That’s really cool. It makes me think of our reliance on calculators and how, while useful, we don’t really need them.
“DNA, the molecule that holds together and makes up all our genes, is 2 nanometers in diameter.”
“In 2003 scientist at UC Berkley, created the smallest electric motor, less than 500 nm in size.”
Think of the ramifications for the medical field.
“Scientists at MIT have even managed to attach a nanosized radio antenna onto a gene and use a radio signal to control its expression.”
Wow. Just wow. World of Warcraft that is. No I’m just joking. XD That is some pretty amazing shittake.
“That’s 141.6 picometers or 1.416 Angstrom, which rather remarkably happens to be pretty much the size of a carbon atom. Not bad for 2,500 years ago, before anyone even knew atoms existed.”
I wonder what would happen if we went back in time and told all the great math figures the type of math we have now?
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