Interesting Links for 21-06-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Why is Switzerland's public transport system so effective?

(tags:transport Switzerland )

2. Stolperstein - the world's largest decentralised memorial

(tags:Holocaust history )

3. 36 Methods of Mathematical Proof

(tags:mathematics funny proof )

4. Number 10 Intervened Before Carrie Johnson Job Story Pulled From The Times

(tags:news UK corruption BorisJohnson )

5. World's largest freshwater fish found in Mekong

(tags:fish Cambodia )

Comments

[qilora]

"3. 36 Methods of Mathematical Proof"

you are making me have flashbacks of Analysis!!! 8-I

and btw, i am convinced that Analysis is just a math-geek version of a freshman's "hell week".... if we don't pass Analysis than we won't be allowed to enter their frat...

(and YES, mathematics is a "frat" no gurls allowed)

[qilora]

"Proof by convenience: "It would be very nice if it were true, so..."

string theory in a nutshell!!! hahaha

[calimac]

1) Yes, transit integration is a wonderful thing. Or would be, if we had it. It's common to arrive at a transfer station between systems only to find that the train you want has just left and there won't be another one for 30 minutes (or an hour, if it's mid-to-late evening). Great if you're going in the other direction, though, I suppose.

3) Did I miss it, or did they leave out the absolute classic, Fermat's wonderful proof that he didn't write down because it wouldn't fit in the margin of the book he was annotating?

[simont]

They had "proof by lack of sufficient time". Lack of sufficient space is only a minor variation on that :-)