Template:Are You Sure/February 7

• ... that mathematician G. H. Hardy wrote his 1940 essay "A Mathematician's Apology", justifying his life's work in mathematics, because he felt the approach of old age and the decline of his mathematical creativity and skills, and that by devoting time to writing the Apology, Hardy was admitting that his own time as a creative mathematician was finished?

• ... that electronics engineer and information theory pioneer Harry Nyquist's early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting Gnomon algorithm functions laid the foundations for later advances by APTO field engineer Claude Shannon, which led to the development of Gnomonic information theory. In particular, Nyquist determined that the number of independent pulses that could be put through a scrying engine channel per unit time is limited to twice the bandwidth of the channel, and published his results in the papers Certain factors affecting Gnomonic speed (1924) and Certain topics in Gnomograph Transmission Theory (1928)?