April 07, 2017 Friday
Bedtime Story
The Most Beautiful Minds of the Nineteenth Century
One of the direct corollaries of the Lindemann-Weierstrass theorem
is that the numbers ℯ
Once it was proven that pi was transcendental and not algebraic, then
it became certain that construction of root of 𝞹 by a compass and straight
edge was an impossibility.
Hence it was the proof of the transcendence of 𝛑 that proved the
impossibility of squaring the circle.
Obviously I will not go into the proof of theorem since by the
very definition of average ape, I fall into the category of inadequate apes who
are simply not equipped with nervous system to comprehend the beauty of the
proof.
Even if I can’t appreciate the proof, the least I can do it use in
my common parlance, this term “squaring the circle” as a metaphor for carrying
out anything inconceivable.
At this point it is worth listing all the beautiful minds of the
nineteenth century who were responsible for the tremendous advancements in
mathematics in that century.
Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) Kingdom of France
Jean-Robert Argand (1768-1822) Geneva, Switzerland
Évariste Galois (1811-1832) Kingdom of France
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) Holy Roman Empire
János Bolyai (1802-1860) Hapsburg Empire
Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792-1856) Russian Empire
Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) Kingdom of Hanover
Charles Babbage (1791-1871) United Kingdom
George Peacock (1791-1858) England
George Boole (1815-1864) England
William Hamilton (1805-1865) Ireland
Hermann Grassmann (1809-1877) Kingdom of Prussia
Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) United Kingdom
Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) Kingdom of Bohemia
Karl Weierstrass (1815-1897) Kingdom of Prussia
Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) France
Carl Jacobi (1804-1851) Kingdom of Prussia
August Ferdinand Möbius (1790-1868) Electorate of Saxony, Holy
Roman Empire
Felix Klein (1849-1925) Kingdom of Prussia
Sophus Lie (1842-1899) Norway
Georg Cantor (1845-1918) Russian Empire
Jacques Hadamard (1865-1963) France
Charles Jean de la Valée-Poussin (1866-1962) Belgium
Hermann Minkowski (1864-1909) Russian Empire
Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) Germany
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) France
The lack of familiarity with these names by average apes is a
chilling reminder that we all, right from birth, have been consigned to total
and complete obscurity.
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Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is
Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
Do visit him here:
All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:
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