Christian Liechty🦉 @undone_iridium

words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality in my thoughts Joined August 2014

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Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary

6 years ago

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French emperor and science enthusiast who had a special interest and ability in mathematics. There's a theorem named after him: Take a triangle. With each edge build an equilateral triangle. The 3 resulting centroids define an equilateral triangle

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Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary

6 years ago

In 1525, the German mathematician Christoff Rudolff started using this symbol for cube root. It was only in the 17th century in France that ∛ became popular.

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Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary

7 years ago

Plato, tutored by Theodorus, questioned why Theodorus stopped at √17. The reason is commonly believed to be that the √17 hypotenuse belongs to the last triangle that does not overlap the figure.

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Christian Liechty🦉 @undone_iridium

7 years ago

Oregon, 2018

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7 years ago

Our Silver medal photograph - we will post the gold shot tomorrow. The Untouchables.

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Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary

7 years ago

Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist and explorer. He revolutionized the way we see the natural world and invented the web of life, the concept of nature as we know it today. His drawings became the basis for illustrations of his publications.

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7 years ago

"Does the Flap of a Butterfly's wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?" This was the question Edward Lorenz presented to an audience in 1972. Lorenz was the father of chaos theory and showed how impossible perfect weather prediction is. PAPER here: fermatslibrary.com/s/predictabili…

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Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson

7 years ago

From Milton: Satan's thoughts on the nature of Hell: "Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threatening to devour me opens wide. Enough self-reflection reveals this as too terribly true.

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Christian Liechty🦉 @undone_iridium

7 years ago

Above silence, the illuminating storms—dying storms—illuminate the silence above.

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Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary

7 years ago

Ludolph van Ceulen, using Archimedes’ methods, approximated the circle with a regular polygon which had 2⁶² sides. It took 25 years of hand calculations to produce a 35 digit approximation of π, which was inscribed in his tombstone in 1610.

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Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson

7 years ago

Kant (Scruton): "Neither experience nor reason is alone able to provide knowledge. The first provides content without form, the second form without content. Only in their synthesis is knowledge possible; hence there is no knowledge that does not [partake of both]." @samharrisorg