Sujet : Re: Psychology of why math professors cannot admit truth of conic-sections that the slant cut of cone is Oval, never ellipse-- because admission of the truth implies those math professors were cackling idiot-failures in geometry. So they run and hide
De : ross.a.finlayson (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Ross Finlayson)
Groupes : sci.mathDate : 26. Dec 2024, 20:19:01
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On 02/19/2024 03:09 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
Dunham on Archimedes:
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"In this fashion, the pre-Archimedean mystery regarding
circumferences, circular areas, and spherical volumes
was resolved. No longer were three different constants
needed to address these three different matters; all
three rested upon knowledge of pi. Archimedes had
exhibited a stunning unity among them."
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-- Dunham, "Journey through Genius"
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Re: Psychology of why math professors cannot admit truth of conic-sections that the slant cut of cone is Oval, never ellipse-- because admission of the truth implies those math professors were cackling idiot-failures in geometry. So they run and hide