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In a 1695 letter, l’Hopital asked Leibniz about the possibility that n could be something other than an integer, such as n=1/2. Leibniz responded that “It will lead to a paradox, from which one day useful consequences will be drawn.” ift.tt/xXta0AF


Popularized in the Academy Award-winning movie A Beautiful Mind, the Nash equilibrium is a solution concept for n-person games ift.tt/0GTwzZy


From GPS navigation to network-layer link-state routing, Dijkstra’s Algorithm powers some of the most taken-for-granted modern services ift.tt/A1UFQP8


Maxwell's equations are a set of partial differential equations at the foundation of classical electromagnetism, optics, and electric circuits. ift.tt/73wTbpR


"There’s a certain importance to prime numbers’ status as the most fundamental building blocks of all numbers, which are themselves the building blocks of our understanding of the universe." - @setzeus ift.tt/eiTjfoL


If asset prices in the short term show an identifiable pattern, won’t speculators find this pattern and exploit it, thereby eliminating it? ift.tt/AY27jPa


"How to differentiate parameters under the integral sign — it’s a certain operation. It turns out that’s not taught very much in the universities; they don’t emphasize it." - @ProfFeynman ift.tt/pvTiSUB


How could adding integers equal not only a negative number, but a negative fraction? ift.tt/9GiprdH


"I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. “No,” Ramanujan replied" ift.tt/NArRexo


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