1. What is Mathematics?
... a butcher's shop or a slaughterhouse rather than in a modern art gallery. However, it is rarely questioned whether things are mathematical in nature or not. For example, the photograph below3 shows a crop circle at Litchfield in Hampshire, approximately 7 miles from my house and adjacent to the busy A34 trunk road. Not only was this crop ... in design but also according to the Crop Circular3, "it emerged that these rings were so placed to reveal a monumental breakthrough in geometry. For here was a crop circle containing the equilateral branch of Gerald's new Fifth Theorem, from which n...
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