The Longest Now


The art of being 11:50, and a RaLBaG
Monday October 10th 2005, 12:42 pm
Filed under: %a la mod

Sometime after 11:50
last night, I received a pointer to a delightful paper on medieval
mathematics
of the RaLBaG

Two charming stories in one night, one
library staffer, and a Simonson!  Now the question is : did the
story about the internal circumfrence and external diameter come from
him directly, or from Nehemiah as suggested in the History of Pi?

The art of being 11:50, and a RaLBaG …


No Comments so far
Leave a comment



Leave a comment
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>




Bad Behavior has blocked 464 access attempts in the last 7 days.