What Are Some Mind Blowing Facts About Mathematics?

What Are Some Mind Blowing Facts About Mathematics?

“MATHEMATICS” is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry. Here I would love to mention some exciting facts about mathematics. Different levels of infinity Infinity is already a pretty difficult concept to grasp. It wasn’t until the latter half of the 19th century that Georg Cantor developed the branch of math known as Set Theory which allowed him to ponder the true nature of Infinity. And what he found was truly mind-boggling the continuum hypothesis. You can never square a circle using finite construction steps due to the Transcendence of π There are more irrational numbers than rational numbers on the number line. The Reuleaux Triangle is a shape of constant width,the simplest and best known such curve other than a circle. The mathematical name for # is octothorpe. We cannot represent one googolplex non exponentially in this universe, we'll run out of atoms. Triangles, Squares and Hexagons are the only regular polygons that tessellate. The equals sign was invented in 1557 by welsh mathematician Robert Recorde. Logarithm is defined for all complex number domain excluding zero (I'm not high). Sunflower seeds follow Pingala (Fibonacci) series . We still can't answer, What are numbers? Sum of all positive integers is equal to -1/12. Imaginary numbers are equally real as real numbers. Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations or algorithms; it is about understanding. (Please tell me which one is your favorite in the comments) Have a great day .) Thanks Shubham Ishan for edits Source. Google,Ted Ed, Pinterest,numberphille and I.A. Maron.