Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz
Test your mathematical sense of humor: http://www.theguardian.com/science/quiz/2013/oct/21/mathematical-humour-quiz?CMP=fb_gu Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz
9/10 - I got the Mandelbrot one wrong - should've known better! On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:58:11PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: Test your mathematical sense of humor: http://www.theguardian.com/science/quiz/2013/oct/21/mathematical-humour-quiz?CMP=fb_gu Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz
8/10 I didn't get the parrot/banana one because although I realised they were looking for a vector cross product I couldn't remember what that actually is! And I didn't get the Godel is killing me! one because I didn't see the logic (I still don't, really) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz
On 10/21/2013 6:29 PM, LizR wrote: 8/10 I didn't get the parrot/banana one because although I realised they were looking for a vector cross product I couldn't remember what that actually is! And I didn't get the Godel is killing me! one because I didn't see the logic (I still don't, really) It was a pun on My girdle is killing me!, catch phrase in the days women wore girdles. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz
I got that. I just didn't understand why that was the answer. I thought the Freud one, perhaps, because he was at least more their contemporary, as compared to Godel or Goethe. But I don't see the logic - why is that pun more suited to Russell and Whitehead? Oh hang on, I think I've sussed it. Is it because Godel effectively blew their magnum opus (Principia Mathematica) out of the water? Now that *is* rather subtle. On 22 October 2013 14:37, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 10/21/2013 6:29 PM, LizR wrote: 8/10 I didn't get the parrot/banana one because although I realised they were looking for a vector cross product I couldn't remember what that actually is! And I didn't get the Godel is killing me! one because I didn't see the logic (I still don't, really) It was a pun on My girdle is killing me!, catch phrase in the days women wore girdles. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.comeverything-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com . To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.**comeverything-list@googlegroups.com . Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/**group/everything-listhttp://groups.google.com/group/everything-list . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_outhttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 02:29:04PM +1300, LizR wrote: 8/10 I didn't get the parrot/banana one because although I realised they were looking for a vector cross product I couldn't remember what that actually is! And I didn't get the Godel is killing me! one because I didn't see the logic (I still don't, really) Goedel's incompleteness theorem destroyed any hope of Russell and Whitehead's formalisation programme of Principia Mathematica actually succeeding. It's quite punny, actually! From Wikipedia: PM, as it is often abbreviated, was an attempt to describe a set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic from which all mathematical truths could in principle be proven. As such, this ambitious project is of great importance in the history of mathematics and philosophy,[1] being one of the foremost products of the belief that such an undertaking may have been achievable. However, in 1931, Gödel's incompleteness theorem proved definitively that PM, and in fact any other attempt, could never achieve this lofty goal; that is, for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be deduced from them. -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Fwd: Fwd: The Guardian quiz
I'm glad to say I worked that out before it was explained to me (see above :D ) On 22 October 2013 15:15, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 02:29:04PM +1300, LizR wrote: 8/10 I didn't get the parrot/banana one because although I realised they were looking for a vector cross product I couldn't remember what that actually is! And I didn't get the Godel is killing me! one because I didn't see the logic (I still don't, really) Goedel's incompleteness theorem destroyed any hope of Russell and Whitehead's formalisation programme of Principia Mathematica actually succeeding. It's quite punny, actually! From Wikipedia: PM, as it is often abbreviated, was an attempt to describe a set of axioms and inference rules in symbolic logic from which all mathematical truths could in principle be proven. As such, this ambitious project is of great importance in the history of mathematics and philosophy,[1] being one of the foremost products of the belief that such an undertaking may have been achievable. However, in 1931, Gödel's incompleteness theorem proved definitively that PM, and in fact any other attempt, could never achieve this lofty goal; that is, for any set of axioms and inference rules proposed to encapsulate mathematics, there would in fact be some truths of mathematics which could not be deduced from them. -- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
