tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433841880619171855.post1263769007172681701..comments2024-03-27T21:09:44.320+00:00Comments on Pat'sBlog: On This Day in Math - Octobver 20Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433841880619171855.post-54537534681278849982012-10-20T15:14:18.864+01:002012-10-20T15:14:18.864+01:00Because of the topology connection I thought perha...Because of the topology connection I thought perhaps that the Microsoft search engine "Bing" was named after R. H. Bing. Alas, so much for romanticism. Apparently the search engine was named after the game "Bingo" as in "Bingo, I won".Bob Mrotekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15016079751197723749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2433841880619171855.post-48992751284473634182012-10-20T14:53:30.303+01:002012-10-20T14:53:30.303+01:00"The mathematician plays a game in which he h..."The mathematician plays a game in which he himself invents the rules while the physicist plays a game in which the rules are provided by nature..."<br /><br />I would rather be a mathematician than a physicist. The poor physicists are confined to the known universe but numbers in the form of "nothing plus something, plus something" (i.e. binary) exist outside of the known universe in the realm of the uncaused cause. Plato had it right :)Bob Mrotekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15016079751197723749noreply@blogger.com