February 2

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Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that Binet's Formula, which expresses Fibonacci numbers in closed form, is named in honor of Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, although the same result was known to Abraham de Moivre a century earlier?

• ... that CSI: Reptile Gastrointestinal Unit is a television crime drama show featuring a team of herpetological gastroenterologists who solve crimes related to reptile ingestion, digestion, and excretion?

• ... that philosopher Imre Lakatos tried to establish that no theorem of informal mathematics is final or perfect, and that we should not think that a theorem is ultimately true, only that no counterexample has yet been found?

Topic of the Day

Telephones