Interesting facts about mathematics and mathematics

As you know, mathematics is the mother of all sciences. And this is no wonder. Because all the exact sciences are focused on computing. However, this does not mean that everything in this realm is boring and boring. By no means! Despite the seriousness of the teaching, there are surprising and interesting facts about mathematics. And you can find them almost anywhere in the world.

Surprisingly, it's a fact

Consider the most interesting facts about mathematics concerning our country, and also
Western countries. As is known, zero is not a set of natural numbers. But this is not the opinion of all: in the West it is referred to as natural numbers.

Or here is another example. Many of us live and do not suspect that "now" they fly away pretty quickly - 86,400 times a day. This unit of the numbering was not given a name, but it was found out how long the moment lasted: about a hundredth of a second.

As it turned out, some peoples are very superstitious about certain numbers. For example, in Japan and in China there is nothing with number four, since this figure represents death itself. Therefore, it is not customary to use it even in hotels.

In Israel they reject everything that is connected with Christianity in one way or another, so they do not write a plus sign in mathematical calculations, but they only manage to turn the letter "T" upside down.

And in gambling (roulette in a casino) the number 666 is the sum of all the values that are present on the drum.

Interesting examples

Everyone knows from the school's bench what happens if you add all the numbers from one to ten. You forgot? Not scary, we will remind: the sum will make 54.

Those people who are friends with the exact sciences know that if you add all the values from 1 to 100, you get a very impressive number - 5050.

You can make a simple calculation and see what happens if you enter the first 3 digits of your phone number (without an operator) in the calculator, multiply them by 80, add 1, then you need to multiply all this by 250, add the last 4 digits of your number two times, Take 250, divide by 2. The answer is an amazing number. It will amaze you, we assure!

The Shnobelev Prize

Everyone knows what the Nobel Prize is, to whom and for what it is handed. But besides it there is one more unusual rewarding. He is called the Shnobelev Prize. Who can become a laureate? It is awarded simultaneously with the Nobel Prize, but, unlike the famous award, Shnobelevskaya is given for those brilliant projects that at the moment can not be translated into reality. Or they will never do it, because they are absurd. In 2009, this award was presented to veterans who proved that a cow with a nickname gives more milk than the one with no name.

Experiment

Surprisingly, the scientists conducted an experiment that shows the distance
On the axis represent people who are not educated in their imagination. Among the subjects were representatives from the Munduruku tribe and American schoolchildren, who can not count. They were given a look at a certain number of points, and after some time asked to indicate where the numbers are from one to ten. It turned out that for most people the smallest values have long distances.

As it turned out, interesting facts about mathematics also exist in the field of cooking. For example, a cake can be cut in two ways into eight equal pieces.

Helpful Tips

Many people do not know how to verify the authenticity of euro bills. But this is relatively easy to do. It is necessary to take the letter from the serial sign and replace it with a digit (the serial number in the alphabet). Then you need to add the resulting number to the other values. And after that, add the numbers of the result until one value comes out - 8. It turns out that such interesting facts about mathematics can help verify the authenticity of the notes.

If we take several figures (among which there will be a circle) with the same perimeter, then after a series of calculations it turns out that the circle has the largest area. It is impossible not to notice that if we calculate the perimeter of the circle and other figures, it will remain in the minority. Yes, he has the smallest perimeter.

Interesting historical facts about mathematics

Today, all people use the decimal system of calculation, but it was not always so. At a time when our ancestors were just beginning to count, they used a system of 20 characters, using fingers and hands to do this. After this trend has changed. For example, in Babylon, people counted not only the fingers, but also the phalanx, which gave out the number twelve.

Still something concerns to section "Amusing and interesting facts about the mathematician". As far as everyone knows, the Romans were a clever people. They were good at counting. However, there was one flaw - the number "0". It is now used everywhere, but in Rome it was not. Do not believe me? And in vain! The confirmation of the above is the fact that zero can not be written down by any of the known Roman numbers!

Interesting facts about great mathematicians

Albert Einstein was gifted from childhood. But, having a talent in mathematics, he could not enter a polytechnic school in Zurich because he failed to score the correct score for the rest of the subjects. By the way, such features of development are noted in many geniuses. Soon, pulling up knowledge of the necessary disciplines, Einstein was allowed to study at this school.

There are other interesting facts about well-known mathematicians. At the American University, graduate student George Danzig was able to solve two tasks that previously were considered unrequited. The fact is that the future mathematician was a little late for the lesson. After that, he copied these tasks from the board, deciding that they are homework. They seemed complicated, but George had a few days to close the question, which scientists have been thinking about for years.

As it turned out, mathematics can be learned not only at school or at the institute, but at home, viewing wallpaper. In any case, it turned out in Sofia Kovalevskaya.
So it turned out that she in her childhood looked in her room on the sheets with lectures on the integral and differential calculation. And the thing is that the children's room just did not have enough wallpaper. And thank God!

Surprisingly, with the help of mathematics you can find out when the last day of your stay on earth comes. Abraham de Moivre (a scientist from Britain) managed to achieve this through an arithmetic progression. He noticed for himself that he starts every day for 15 minutes more to sleep. What was the result of this? Abraham made a progression that indicated the date when he would have to sleep 24 hours a day. This turned out to be November 27, 1754. Just that day the mathematician died.