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Yeah, and even given that, there’s the question of how exactly it deforms from its flattened shape to make a spiral (and if this changes the area). I wouldn’t agree with the “corre…

I think that’s more about what he chose to publish. He was known for discovering things and keeping them to himself. As I understand it, he actually first came to conjecture quadra…

One thing I distinctly remember they _weren't_ doing better was letting you just watch your video in piece. The controls were obtrusive and always visible, the background was brigh…

Sort of. A Euclidean structure has “addition” but not “multiplication”. Having an additional operation that’s required to be associative, have inverses, distribute over addition, a…

Many theorems let you know that something exists but don't tell you how to compute it efficiently (an orthogonal basis, eigenvalues, inverses, etc.) Also, sometimes algorithms can …