A Mathematician
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The Astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler
chandra.harvard.eduMathematician at the court-in-exile of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, in Prague. He was arrogant, conceited, and obnoxious. While at university he had a duel with a fellow student over which one was the best mathematician. Tycho may have been the superior mathematician, but he was not the better duelist: during the encounter he lost his nose,
Birds and Frogs - American Mathematical Society
www.ams.orgMeanwhile, the mathematician Roger Penrose discovered the Penrose tilings of the plane. These are arrangements of parallelograms that cover a plane with pentagonal long-range order. The alloy quasi-crystals are three-dimensional analogs of the two-dimensional Penrose tilings. After these discoveries, mathematicians had to enlarge the
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
www.alice-in-wonderland.netAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll With illustrations by John Tenniel This .pdf file was made available through Lenny’s Alice in Wonderland site:
Riemann Surfaces - University of California, Berkeley
math.berkeley.eduRiemann Surfaces Dr C. Teleman1 Lent Term 2003 1Originally LATEXed by James Lingard | please send all comments and corrections to teleman@dpmms.cam.ac.uk