Introduction In this episode we will give an overview about an interesting and enigmatic topic in mathematics. We are referring to transcendental numbers. Let’s start by just talking about this name “transcendental numbers”. If you look for the meaning of the word “transcendental” in the dictionary,y you might find things like this: “supernatural, beyond human…
Read MoreIn mathematics there are a few famous constants; maybe the most well known is pi but you might have also heard about the Euler constant, the golden ratio, or the imaginary unit. Today I want to talk about a constant that is less well known, but that appears frequently in different parts of analysis and…
Read MoreBenford’s law also known as the “first digit law” or the “law of anomalous numbers” owns the name to Frank Benford, a physicist at the General Electric company who made public this law by 1938. However, this is again one of those scientific injustices in which an earlier work is not properly recognized because we…
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