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Niels Abel was born 224 years ago, on August 5, 1802. At just 21, he proved that no general algebraic formula can solve equations of degree 5, a problem that had challenged mathematicians for roughly 250 years.
Short on money, Abel paid the printer himself and condensed his proof into just six pages to keep costs down. He sent a copy to Gauss, but never received a response.
Abel died of tuberculosis at just 26. Two days later, a letter arrived announcing that he had been appointed professor in Berlin.
A breakthrough recognized too late.
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Fifteen Most Famous Transcendental Numbers
https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/trans.html
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#DYK Rajveer Meena of India, recited the first 70,000 decimal places of π in 2015?
In 2021, π was calculated to over 62.8 trillion decimal places by computers.
The earliest known calculation of π is dated to ancient Egypt ~1650 BCE!
Y’all look radian today 😻
If you eat too much π you end up with a big circumference.
If you tell me 3.14% of sailors are 🏴☠️ I would respond thar you are being irrational and I don’t want to repeat myself.
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Fun fact! 2025 is a square year (45×45=2025).
The last one was 1936, and the next one won't be until 2116.
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#MathFacts The 340th day of the year;
340 can also be written as the sum of consecutive primes in three different ways.
340! +1 is prime. There are only thirteen day numbers of the year for which n! +1 is prime, and 340 is the last of these.
Jim Wilder@wilderlab pointed out that 340 = 4^1 + 4*2 + 4* + 4^4. Just think, tomorrow will be even a longer string of consecutive powers of four!
https://pballew.blogspot.com/2022/12/on-this-day-in-math-december-6.html