Sunday, May 11, 2025

Do aur do paanch (2+2=5)?

In earlier times people were indiscriminately using negatives of numbers and came up with statements like 2+2=5.

Also during those days mathematicians were contemplating of root of minus 1.

Maclaurin had come up with infinite series of sin(x), cos(x) and also log(x). These do not require 0 factorial (0!). Maclaurin could have managed without 0!.

Euler took upon his shoulders the 0!. He also introduced i, the complex number which is root of minus 1. The e constant was born.

"External " binomial expressions (a+b)^n were made by Newton. Newton used his thumb as 1, as a right triangle and also placed it in ground indicating use of gravity. Three things Newton used his thumb for. He was a super human. 

Newton's mathematics were spread on all the  areas where the "sun never sets".

X=0 is a sin in mathematics.  What to say of polynomials equated to 0. Personally I was looking out for m squared minus m minus 1 sorts of expressions but rarely equated them to zero in mind.

I hope my sins are forgot. 

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