I took a very long break, but I’m hoping to be back. No promises or excuses offered. This review is admittedly a bit out of date. I recently read the entire collection of science fiction written by Douglas Adams, who died quite young in 2001.
A class member recently asked me what the difference is between a theory and a law. I believe this is a very common confusion, usually stemming from a popular view that a scientific theory is “just a theory”, implying it is less than likely to
To almost everyone this would seem a ridiculous question. Even to most mathematicians the existence of Pi (defined here as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to it’s diameter) is taken for granted. But the question of the existence of the class of number to