Adventures in Mathmagic Land
Apr. 21st, 2005 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
etherialA trip to the Museum of Science brought me back to the Mathematica Exhibit, and I explored it very deeply, stumbling upon this wonderful little proof:
E.F. Beckenbach gave a proof that all numbers are interesting:
Suppose there are some numbers that are uninteresting. That means we can group and order them. There must be a smallest uninteresting number. That would be an interesting property, and thus there is no smallest uninteresting number, thus there are no uninteresting numbers.
E.F. Beckenbach gave a proof that all numbers are interesting:
Suppose there are some numbers that are uninteresting. That means we can group and order them. There must be a smallest uninteresting number. That would be an interesting property, and thus there is no smallest uninteresting number, thus there are no uninteresting numbers.