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#252 Re: This is Cool » The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio. Anybody read it? » 2006-07-11 18:02:35

I've read Livio's book and found it very interesting. For even more information on Phi and the Fibonacci sequence, I highly recommend checking out this site.

#253 Re: Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity » barber paradox » 2006-07-11 09:46:03

AshJones555 wrote:

A town has only one male barber. If he shaves every man in the town except for those who shave themselves, does he shave himself?

The problem implies the barber, being male, is shaven.

Another one:

This sentence is false.

True or False?

#254 Re: Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity » Principia Mathmatica » 2006-07-11 07:41:39

Stephen Hawking's On The Shoulders of Giants talks about Newton's Principia and includes the text. Hawking also talks about Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Einstein, and their respective contributions to Physics. The ISBN is 0762413484.

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