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Francis McDonnell

Francis McDonnell

@DrFMCD

Mathematician, Poet, Writer, Artist, Swimmer, Founder of The Erdos Club (see website).

Luton, England Katılım Ekim 2009
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"poetry ... is simply the continuation of mathematics by other means" - Sarah Hart
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Today is a mathematically interesting day. If you multiply the day of the month by the month of the year by the year you get a cube - 24 x 3 x 24 =1728=12 cubed.
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"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty." Deepak Chopra
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Here's a mathematical joke I heard Milton Jones tell on the radio recently: Maths can be confusing. Why is that one times one is one, two times two is four, but zero times zero is gravy granules?
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Mathematicians get a mention in the song "Go tell the women" by Grinderman.
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I was interested and surprised to hear "Number Theory" mentioned on the soap "The Archers" today!
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Celebrated Fibonacci Day by buying and eating some sunflower seeds.
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... and inspire us with Resolution to wrestle against the unjust Tryanny of false Prejudices."
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... They wholly deliver us from a credulous Simplicity, most strongly fortify us against the Vanity of Scepticism, effectually restrain from a rash Presumption, most easily incline us to a due Assent, perfectly subject us to the Government of right Reason ...
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"These Disciplines [mathematics] serve to inure and corroborate the Mind to a constant Diligence in Study; to undergo the Trouble of an attentive Meditation, and cheerfully contend with such Difficulties as lie in the Way.
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Thanks to @snezanalawrence in October's Mathematics Today I have learned of the following lovely quote about the benefits of mathematics to one's thinking generally. Isaac Barrow, First holder of the Lucasian Chair in Mathematics at Cambridge said:
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@greenpoet Hi David. I am well, thanks, and hope you are too. Thanks for the tip-off about Peregrine Falcons. There was a lovely film on last night called The Peanut Butter Falcon (but it wasn't really about a feathered bird).
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Poet Lemn Sissay is on Any Questions! 🙂
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Today is a great day for mathematicians - Lemma has come 3rd in the London Marathon!
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Here's a Haiku I composed the other day in St. George's Square, Luton: Pigeons transfer to / roof of VS Food & Wine / Few left on the square.
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Just finished reading the enjoyable The Weil Conjectures by Karen Olsson. It says Andre Weil was the last Universal Mathematician according to Scientific American.
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A while ago Deloitte estimated that 16% of Britain's GDP was directly dependent on mathematical research.
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