Thomas Hirst (1887): Ah, why was Newton ever born? Thomas Hirst (1830-1892) recounts the period of mathematical history through...
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The Bounce of the Superball The commercially available 'Superball' of hard rough rubber displays many...
The Uses of Irrationality: Paper Sizes and the Golden Ratio Is there anything mathematically interesting about the paper sizes we...
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