Reality, by Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini, was performed this past autumn at the Théâtre de la Colline in Paris (20th arrondissement), and what interests us here is not so much the play's characters as the relationship between its heroine, Janina Turek, and numbers.
Articles recommended for you.
The entire Tangente editorial team joins in wishing its readers a very happy 2016. The gift it has cooked up for you? A bouquet of properties of the number 2016!
What use is there in raising numbers to powers, except for the fun of uncovering some arithmetical property of the natural numbers? Unexpectedly, this ancient computational art lies at the heart of modern cryptography and secure data transmission.
Telling almost at a glance whether one integer is divisible by another can sometimes be quite a challenge. Yet there are perfectly reliable ways to do so, even with fairly large numbers!
Actual infinity is a mathematical fiction, useful in calculations and proofs alike. We may reject it and make do with potential infinity. But if we accept the notion of infinity, there must be more than one. Georg Cantor—him again!—proved it.
Discussion
Sign in to post a comment and talk with other readers.
No comments yet. Be the first to respond.
