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From Plato to Euler and back
This is primarily meant as an educational handout on some very basic theorems of geometry that one might have studied in school. Some educated adults whom we asked about these had either forgotten them or claimed to have never studied … Continue reading
Posted in Scientific ramblings
Tagged Euler, geometry, Plato, Platonic ideals, polygons, polyhedra, polyhedron, space
A day at school
It was the English class in school. The teacher, a swarthy man with somewhat liberal political leanings, strode into the class: “Today we shall be studying a poem by the white American poet Robert Frost, Fire and Ice. Dandadipa, stand … Continue reading
Posted in Life
Tagged Abrahamism, fiction, Fire, Ice, Maillard reaction, religion, space, Story
