My favourite is Stephanie Flanders' square root recovery. When I was a kid I would have loved to have square roots in my alphabet soup (that's the kind of child I was, I'm afraid)
It gets worse. I remember when mathematicians ran out of Roman and Greek letters for their variables, and had to start on the Hebrew Aleph sign for their uncountable infinities.
I used to think that was as exotic as it would get, but Gillian Tett now thinks the recovery will be in the shape of the shorthand sign for 'bank'.
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My favourite is Stephanie Flanders' square root recovery. When I was a kid I would have loved to have square roots in my alphabet soup (that's the kind of child I was, I'm afraid)
thanks - good link..
.in all kindness, you are a square root alphabet soup type...
It gets worse. I remember when mathematicians ran out of Roman and Greek letters for their variables, and had to start on the Hebrew Aleph sign for their uncountable infinities.
I used to think that was as exotic as it would get, but Gillian Tett now thinks the recovery will be in the shape of the shorthand sign for 'bank'.
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