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This is related to the Basel Problem. Starting from there, you can separate the odd and even terms, then note that the even terms are...

Maybe overdoing it here, or being thick " Rainman: style, but how can you decide when words are different beyond a literal sense: are...

I told my wife about this IQ thread and she reminded me of an experience with one of our kids. The IQ tester asked him (at age 4 or 5...

hang in there mr.cheeto. and make sure those books are there for your family.

Thanks for motivating me look this up. It seems Ramanujan's first two attempts at wider recognition were via letters in late 1912 to...

I do sometimes enjoy taking tests, but my goal was to earn a PhD. After that sitting, UWa offered me a fellowship. Test taking can be...

In some PhD programs, one earns a masters by progressing far enough to pass the prelim exams. A long time ago, I walked into the UWa...

my 2 cents: To my knowledge, IQ tests aim to measure in part: vocabulary, analogies, memory, numerical problem solving, spatial skills...

I want to elaborate on my previous post. Imagine the game is changed. You have three doors, one, with a car behind it. Now you can...

We say that ##f(x)\to C## as ##x\to \infty## if for any positive number ##\varepsilon## there exists ##B## such that the inequality...

Perhaps in the domain of the universal quantifier "for any positive epsilon"? Naively, perhaps the tension is between the necessity of...

I don't recall how far into the book I got before I quit doing it, but when I was first hired as a college calc teacher, using Thomas...

......Or to put it another way, after all these years, Achilles has apparently still not quite caught up to the tortoise.

This discussion seems to continue (here and elsewhere) without limit. However, at least in my lifetime, I suspect it will never be...

It is even easier to construct products and quotients of segments using similar triangles, i.e. triangles constructed within the same...