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Article: Mathematics scrapbook.
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- Australian Mathematics Teacher
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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That queer quantity "infinity" is the very mischief, and no rational physisicist should have anything to do with it. Perhaps that is why mathematicians represent it with a sign like a love-knot.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944), astrophysicist
The imaginary numbers are a wonderful flight of God's spirit. They are almost an amphibian between being and not being.
Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716), mathematician
So many places
Memorising [pi] has become a hobby for some people. The current world record is 83 431 decimal places, and was set by a Japanese mental health counsellor, Akira Haraguchi on 2 July 2005. He was 59 years old at ...