Mathematical Gems
This page contains a number of mathematical problems, concepts,
and arguments that I find intriguing. A number of them roused
or reinforced my interest in mathematics when I was a high
school student.
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Why is the square root of 2 irrational?
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How do we know that there are infinitely many prime
numbers?
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The Four Color Map Problem
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Fermat's Last Theorem
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Transfinite Numbers, Set Theory.
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The Mandelbrot Set,
and some modifications.
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The Platonic Solids.
Fine print, your comments, more links, Peter Alfeld,
PA1UM
[20-Jan-1997]