Euler's work touched upon so many fields that he is often the earliest written reference on a given matter. In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
Schlagwort: Mathematik
Faulhematik.
Mathematics is measuring times laziness squared.
Wiskunste.
Ik zweef tussen de wiskunde en de kunst.
Functowerset.
I saw now that in my desire to know theorics I had taken shortcuts that, just like shortcuts on a map, turned out to be longcuts. Whenever I’d seen Jesry get it quicker than me, I had misread equations in a way that had seemed easier at the time but made things harder—no, impossible—later.
Fraa Orolo in Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Immerpressive.
The world's first linear algebra book with fully interactive figures.
J. Ström, K. Åström, and T. Akenine-Möller: Immersive Linear Algebra