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General Discussion => General Discussion Boards => Other General Discussion => Topic started by: pi on July 29, 2011, 05:19:06 pm
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This is a bit lame, but it has been puzzling me for the last few mins.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler#Personal_philosophy_and_religious_beliefs, I really don't understand the last paragraph "joke" :(
Any explanation/thoughts of why Euler's "proof" (which I'm assuming is a joke) caused Diderot to be embarrassed, especially as it says he was a mathematician himself?
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This was in the Paradox magazine I read yesterday, that's really spooky.
As I understood it, the equation is nonsensical and the only way it can equal X is if there's a divine intercession. Mathematicians have really bad humour.
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If a, b, x were all integers then would b^n=nx-a have an integral solution to n?
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This was in the Paradox magazine I read yesterday, that's really spooky.
That is spooky :o
As I understood it, the equation is nonsensical and the only way it can equal X is if there's a divine intercession. Mathematicians have really bad humour.
Oh. Yeh, that is a pretty bad joke (is it even true?) ;D
Thanks Russ!
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Oh. Yeh, that is a pretty bad joke (is it even true?) ;D
That mathematicians have bad humour? Yes, |absolutely|.
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