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Tribute to Hero’s: G. H. Hardy

Posted by: intelbot on: February 7, 2009

Today is the birth centenary of G.H.Hardy, great English Mathematician.Hardy is most famous outside of mathematics for his “A Mathematician’s Apology”. book . The book, talks among other things about how mathematics is young man’s game. He is also known for his association with Ramanujan and for being the person responsible for bringing him to [...]

Prime Numbers between 1 & 1000

Posted by: intelbot on: February 4, 2009

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73 ,79, 83 ,89, 97 ,101, 103, 107, 109 ,113 ,127,131, 137, 139, 149, 151, 157, 163 ,167, 173 , 179, 181, 191, 193, 197, 199, 211, 223, 227, 229 ,233, 239, 241, 251, 257, [...]

Ramanujan: The Man who knew Infinity

Posted by: intelbot on: December 22, 2008

Today is the 121 Birth Anniversary of Srinivas Ramanujan,a famous Indian Mathematician,who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis,number theory,infinite series and continued fractions.Recently his contributions have found applications in crystallography and string theory. In the memory of Ramanujan, Tamil Nadu every year celebrates 22 December as ‘State [...]

Classic: Algebraic Proof of 1=2

Posted by: intelbot on: April 11, 2008

Step 1: Let a=b. Step 2: Then , Step 3: , Step 4: , Step 5: , Step 6: and . Step 7: This can be written as , Step 8: and cancelling the from both sides gives 1=2.

P = NP problem and the Valentine’s Day Song

Posted by: intelbot on: February 4, 2008

Here is a nice Song i found on the Net, which reminds us about the Famous Unsolved Mathematical Problem P = NP . its a love storyof two strange peoplewho never knew they couldfall for each otherwhen they first metthey only ended up fightingbut slowy it became clear to themthat they sure shared something a [...]

NUMB3RS

Posted by: intelbot on: April 13, 2007

Actuarial Science Golden Ratio Pursuit Curve Art Gallery Theorem Guilloché Pattern Pythagorean Theorem Bayesian Analysis Handshake Problem Reversion to the Mean Benford’s Law Integer Sequence Riemann Hypothesis Cellular Automaton Linear Discriminant An… RSA Number Cluster Analysis Markov Chain Sabermetrics Combinatorics Mathematics Prizes SIR Model Critical Line Minesweeper Sphere Eversion Discrete Logarithm Minimum Spanning Tree Spirograph [...]

Mathematics for Programmers 1 :Prime Numbers

Posted by: intelbot on: April 13, 2007

A prime number (or prime integer, often simply called a “prime” for short) is a positive integer 1″ border=”0″ height=”15″ width=”33″> that has no positive integer divisors other than 1 and itself. (More concisely, a prime number is a positive integer having exactly one positive divisor other than 1.) For example, the only divisors of [...]

Fibonacci Series……….

Posted by: intelbot on: April 13, 2007

Fibonacci numbers Equation: F(n) = F(n-1) + F(n-2) Series :0, 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765, 10946, 17711, 28657, 46368, 75025, 121393, 196418, 317811, 514229, 832040, 1346269, 2178309, 3524578, 5702887, 9227465, 14930352, 24157817, 39088169 1. Fibonacci numbers whose internal digits form a Fibonacci number. Or Fibonacci numbers from [...]


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