[–] thinkpad20 11y ago ↗ Sounds like a remarkable guy. But, and not to nitpick, but calling him "the greatest mathematician of his era" is a bit ridiculous. This was the era of Hilbert, von Neumann, Gödel, Turing, Einstein, Ramanujan... [–] 3rd3 11y ago ↗ Yeah, the mainstream will probably never get the distinction between mathematics and arithmetics straight.
[–] 3rd3 11y ago ↗ Yeah, the mainstream will probably never get the distinction between mathematics and arithmetics straight.
[–] Medox 11y ago ↗ "Aitken could recite Pi to 707 decimal places", and how about 22.514? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z22H89rIMHk @ 8:00 (although the entire documentary is great) [–] Tycho 11y ago ↗ When people say recite Pi is there some calculation involved or are they just memorising a large string of numbers?
[–] Tycho 11y ago ↗ When people say recite Pi is there some calculation involved or are they just memorising a large string of numbers?
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