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Margo Martindale

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Public math education fails to capture the wonder of math methinks


Like Hardy said about Ramanujan, sometimes you see math that looks so absurd but "must be true because, if they were not true, no one would have the imagination to invent them"

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Madhava (c. 1350-1425), rediscovered by Leibniz (1673)


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Brouncker (1655) formula as a generalized continued fraction

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Viète (1593), first infinite series in European math

This is just the tip of the iceberg....
 
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