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== Better Than News ==
== Better Than News ==


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{{Better Than News/January 6}}
== Beyond Plausible ==
{{Beyond Plausible/January 6}}
== In Other Words ==
{{In Other Words/January 6}}


== Are You Sure ==
== Are You Sure ==


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{{Are You Sure/January 6}}
== On This Day in Fiction and Nonfiction ==
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== Topic of the Day ==
== Topic of the Day ==


{{Daily Favorites/January 6}}
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Latest revision as of 10:21, 1 August 2023


Better Than News

Beyond Plausible

In Other Words

Are You Sure

• ... that mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant in his book Geometria rotundi (1583)?

• ... that objections to Georg Cantor's work were occasionally fierce: Henri Poincaré referred to Cantor's ideas as a "grave disease" infecting the discipline of mathematics, and Leopold Kronecker's public opposition and personal attacks included describing Cantor as a "scientific charlatan", a "renegade" and a "corrupter of youth"?

• ... that Jacob Bernoulli derived the first version of the law of large numbers in his work Ars Conjectandi?

Topic of the Day

Harry Nilsson