Jeff Clark
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Writer and researcher, interests include politics, economics and finance, history, mathematics, good music and books, and the Red Sox. Alumnus UVM, AU.
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The integral symbol ∫ introduced in 1675 was based on the ſ (long S) character, and was chosen because Leibniz thought of it as an ∞ sum
The following formula yields the correct decimal digits of π to 42 billion digits
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If you divide 1 by 998,001 you get all three-digit numbers from 000 to 999 in order, except for 998.
Farthest ever landing. Titan landing. It's a shame many people don't know we landed on a moon of Saturn.
What an embarrassment. If you wanted evidence that campuses are now unserious places, note the nationwide effort to make commencements entertaining by featuring entertainers as speakers rather than scholars or intellectually relevant people.
Kermit the Frog will delivery his first commencement address in nearly 30 years at the University of Maryland on Thursday. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u…
Extremely detailed view of Mars (actual sound of Mars)
how the Solar System travels around the center of the galaxy, taking 225 million to 250 million years for a full orbit.
A one-line proof of the infinitude of primes
It was only 287 years ago that Euler presented in his textbooks the exact formula for the volume of a sphere
This is the only solution to a² + b³ = c⁷ in positive integers
Here's a list for the number of primes less than powers of 10: 10 4 10² 25 10³ 168 10⁴ 1,229 10⁵ 9,592 10⁶ 78,498 10⁷ 664,579 10⁸ 5,761,455 10⁹ 50,847,534 10¹⁰ 455,052,511
Top of planet earth, Mount Everest from a commercial plane.
"What’s happening in Canadian politics is not happening in a vacuum. It is a symptom of a much broader phenomenon. Call it the great crack-up of the old consensus. The old consensus held that immigration was an absolute good, with multiculturalism the end goal. Arguments…
The Brachistochrone problem was solved by Bernoulli and is the birth of calculus of variations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachisto…
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