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We Can Square the Circle. John Manimas Says He Found the Solution to the Pythagorean Riddle.
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (1075+ words) Manimas said, “I searched for the solution for fifty-five years. I was thirteen years old when I first believed that there had to be a positive solution. I felt certain that the Pythagoreans would only assign their students a puzzle…...
Marquis Who's Who Honors Robert Goodwin Lacy for Expertise in Manufacturing
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (83+ words) 24-7 Press Release Newswire CHATHAM, MA, January 26, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Robert Goodwin Lacy has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as…...
Geometric UDT — LessWrong
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (1292+ words) This post owes credit to discussions with Caspar Oesterheld, Scott Garrabrant, Sahil, Daniel Kokotajlo, Martín Soto, Chi Nguyen, Lukas Finnveden, Vivek Hebbar, Mikhail Samin, and Diffractor. Inspired in particular by a discussion with cousin_it. The idea here is to combine the…...
Who Was Pythagoras? Explore his Biography, Life, & Contributions!
9+ mon, 5+ day ago (571+ words) Do you remember the Pythagoras Theorem, which you once studied in Mathematics, was a discovery of Pythagoras? In today’s time, people often wonder when Pythagoras was born, his full name, and his contribution to mathematics. Around 530 BCE, Pythagoras settled in…...
Chad S.A. Gibbs, Author at Mississippi Free Press
7+ mon, 1+ day ago (55+ words) Chad S.A. Gibbs Mississippi Free Press Chad Gibbs is a historian of the Holocaust, antisemitism, and war and society. His work is devoted to understanding the timing, choices and tactics of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Chad Gibbs writes about ways…...
New Math Revives Geometry’s Oldest Problems
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (1422+ words) In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight. As mathematics advanced, the objects…...
Henry George Lecture at University of Scranton
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (587+ words) The University of Scranton’s Fall Henry George Lecture, an annual presentation that has featured 13 Nobel Prize winners, recently welcomed William Easterly, Ph.D., professor of economics and co-director of the Development Research Institute… The University of Scranton’s Fall Henry George…...
Reproducing a geometry theorem diagram
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (251+ words) I ran across a geometry theorem with the following diagram. The theorem corresponding to the diagram is interesting, but I found reproducing the diagram more interesting. The segment AB is a diameter and the line CD is perpendicular to the…...
Would You Be a Student of Sotce?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (407+ words) i-d.co Now reading: Would You Be a Student of Sotce? “I have the post-school blues for sure,” Sotce tells me as we log onto Zoom. It’s only been a few days since the school emptied out, and the chalkboard…...
Rainbows, fractals, and crumpled paper: Hölder continuity — LessWrong
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (424+ words) One of my favorite website is allRGB. It's a collection of images which each contain every 24-bit RGB color exactly once. Most of them (though not all) are square 4096-by-4096 images. (In general, we can imagine doing this with (n…...