Willy said: > The question of Frans Maes was not: "Give me a formula for the circumference of an ellipse." > but "Give me a NON-mathematical, intuitively convincing explanation for the fact that > there is no 'simple' formula for the circumference of an ellipse." > > I think we are mostly taked up by a rational masculine approach of science so that we not even hear > that a question is posed out of a intuitive feminine approach..
I think that it's an impossible task. Even the circumference of a circle is not a intuitive, simple formula. 2.pi.r What is this weird pi thing? Why isn't the formula something simple like 2.3.r or 2.4.r Pi, it's just a silly scientists' number. Steve
