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Math, iteration, and perfection.
- cypherpunks01 16y agoJust wait 'til you learn about integrals! They're even more exciting :)
- joshzayin 16y agoAnd cardinalities of infinite sets are cool. Did you know not every infinite set of numbers has the same magnitude? (Informally, "they can have a different number of numbers.")
- aperiodic 16y agoWhen I first understood Cantor's diagonalization argument, it blew my mind. It remains one of the most clever pieces of reasoning I've ever seen.
- roadnottaken 16y agoIf you like that, check out the way to derive the golden ratio with continued fractions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio image (wiki): http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/4/c/4/4c453149032c9c6840e8ae814df707cd.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/4/c/4/4c453149032c9c6840e8a...
- mian2zi3 16y ago> perfection (or in math terms, infinity) Seriously?
- brisance 16y agoSeems like he discovered Riemann's hypothesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis
- hackerblues 16y agoI don't think so, just geometric series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_series