The philosophical foundations of geometry interests me. Thanks for this link.
Harry > >From: Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tue, January 18, 2011 11:11:04 PM >Subject: Re: [Vo]:Miles Mathis > > > >On 01/14/2011 05:04 AM, Mauro Lacy wrote: >A demolishing criticism of Miles Mathis, particularly on his paper about Pi >being 4 (among many other things, Miles shows that Pi equals four, with an >elegant(and wrong) "proof", which basically boils down to this) >> Nice, and that last link's a very cute proof, and nice illustration of what arc-length doesn't mean, as well as being an example of an unexpected encounter with a fractal. Here's another, vaguely related "one-page-puzzle" (uses the same goofy grinning head, otherwise unrelated): http://i.imgur.com/IKFiu.jpg It's so totally crude, so silly, and yet ... so hard to see why it won't work...
