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Around 1994 my dad bought this huge "Solving the Quintic" poster from Wolfram Research after he had started playing around with Mathematica. Staring at it grew
by acidburnNSA 9y ago
Around 1994 my dad bought this huge "Solving the Quintic" poster from Wolfram Research after he had started playing around with Mathematica. Staring at it grew a pretty good fascination in mathematics for me.
I just looked into it and it turns out you can still buy it [1]! Oh, and here's a 1994 announcement about it on sci.math.symbolic [2]!
[1] https://store.wolfram.com/view/misc/popup/solving-tqp.html https://store.wolfram.com/view/misc/popup/solving-tqp.html
[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.math.symbolic/-HhMjcfbW3k https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.math.symbolic/-H...
- wfunction 9y agoOff-topic, but can someone explain to me how mailing lists and threads from 1994 end up on Google Groups? I never really understood what goes on there...
- wiredfool 9y agoThey bought DejaNews, who grabbed a bunch of old net.news archives from various places. They then shoehorned it into the Groups interface.
- avian 9y agoNot mailing lists. These are Usenet posts. Years ago Google bought a service that was archiving the Usenet network and integrated their data into Google Groups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
- SonOfLilit 9y agoOrdering the poster to Israel: poster $10, shipping $52. Wat.