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Check out this site which tells you everything you ever wanted to know about whichever number you enter (as long as it’s less than 10′000). Sounds like a pretty fun idea.
It also reminded me of the book The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip, by Keith Devlin. It’s a highly enjoyable book that tries to explain how humans acquired the ability to do higher maths (ie. things like Abstract Algebra, Analysis, etc. rather than numeracy which has been more thoroughly researched).
I’m sure most people have at some point wanted to read Euclid’s Elements of Geometry and were then put off by the writing. Well, who would have thought that someone remedied this as early as 1847?
The UBC was kind enough to scan Byrne’s edition of the first six books of Euclid’s Elements as well as David Joyce’s edition and put them online.
Who would have thought that the internet wasn’t just for porn?
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