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the only language the universe answers questions in without lying.
means The study of numbers, quantities, shapes, and the patterns and relationships between them — the formal abstraction of counting, measuring, and reasoning.
from A clipped American shortening of 'mathematics' (the British prefer 'maths'). 'Mathematics' itself comes through Latin 'mathematica' from Greek 'mathēmatikē,' rooted in 'manthanein,' meaning 'to learn' — so at its core, math is simply 'the thing that is learned,' knowledge itself, before it narrowed to the study of number and quantity.
- zero's debut
- Treated as a number only around 628 CE.
- imaginary, useful
- Made-up numbers run real electrical grids.
- infinite sizes
- Some infinities are provably bigger than others.
- unprovable truths
- Godel proved math can't prove everything true.
- prime supply
- Primes never run out, Euclid showed why.
fermat's last theorem — andrew wiles proved in 1995 that xⁿ + yⁿ = zⁿ has no integer solutions for n > 2
riemann hypothesis — unsolved problem about the distribution of prime numbers, posed by riemann in 1859, million dollar clay prize
four color theorem — kenneth appel and wolfgang haken proved in 1976 that any map needs at most 4 colors