Re: [math-fun] Question about uniform distribution (mod 1) of a sequence
Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
It was especially the famous case of 163 that got me thinking:
I first heard of it in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in the April 1975 Scientific American, in which he claimed that exp(pi*sqrt(163)) had recently been proven to be an integer. It was a joke article, and made several other equally false but vaguely plausible claims.
Yes, same here. —Dan On Mar 2, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
I first heard of it in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in the April 1975 Scientific American, in which he claimed that exp(pi*sqrt(163)) had recently been proven to be an integer.
P.S. This reminder by Keith led me to review that April 1975 column (which I have on my computer from a CD I got from the MAA). Fun! —Dan On Mar 2, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
I first heard of it in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in the April 1975 Scientific American, in which he claimed that exp(pi*sqrt(163)) had recently been proven to be an integer.
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