Why do people do math? Is it just one of those things humans do, like write poetry, make art or sing? Math does not lie to us. To paraphrase Bertrand Russel, “Mathematics … possesses not only truth but … a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture”. I think math geeks don’t do math because they love it. In fact, Math geeks do math because they don’t love it but because they just want to solve the problems. They want to understand the implications. So, I made a list for getting math geek gifts! Al-Khwarizmi invented algebra, and his Latinized name ...
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