This all started with Pi and now I can't stop. Let me summarize what I have done so far: Pi day in the US is March 14 th. This doesn't work for non-USAians since they write the date in a reasonable ...
Numbers seem like pretty basic items, and it might be imagined that the brain has a correspondingly simple way of handling them. In reality, however, our use of numbers is extremely complex. For ...
In this thread I had some naive questions about Goldbach's conjecture. Since that thread I've read more of How To Prove It, and was wondering if there was a universally agreed upon definition of a ...
We learn counting on our fingers, and the digital representation of numbers we develop is still present in adulthood [Andres M, et al. (2007) J Cognit Neurosci 19:563-576]. Such an anatomy-magnitude ...