"The essence of mathematics is its freedom." -Geoge Cantor "I have created a new universe from nothing." -Janos Bolyai Brocard's conjecture states that between the squares of any two

do you think Pierre de Fermat knew about this "near miss" to his "Last Theorem"?: 73^3 + 144^3 = 150^3 + 1 = 3375001 or how about this one?: 13^5 + 16^5 = 17^5 + 12 = 1419869 do you

If you're a nerd and a guitar player like myself, eventually you'll most likely encounter a book known as: The Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns So what is it? Originally published in 1947, Nicolas

“When I was ten, my father told me about Euclid's proof [of the infinitude of primes], and I was hooked.” -Paul Erdos “My brain is open.” -Paul Erdos Paul Erdos was a Hungarian mathematician who lived

"Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our

The scale below may not look like much, but it is one that I use constantly in my solos. Initially what I liked about this scale is that when it is played in the upper register of the neck, the first three

The decimal expansion of Pi^e begins like so: 22.4591577183610454734271522045437350275... This number is of course irrational, but only conjectured to be transcendental, meaning it is never the root of

We noticed the Zen Master walking toward our hut. He was carrying a thick yellow book under his arm. He knocked and we told him to enter. He staggered around and finally placed the large book on our table.