As you know, mathematics is the mother of all sciences. And this is no wonder. Since all the exact sciences are focused on calculations. However, this does not mean at all that everything in this kingdom is boring and boring. By no means! Despite the seriousness of the teaching, surprising and interesting facts about mathematics appear. And you can find them almost anywhere in the world.
Surprising but true
Let's consider the most interesting facts about mathematics concerning our country, as well as
Western countries. As you know, we have zero does not belong to the set of natural numbers. But not everyone thinks so: in the West it is referred to as natural numbers.
Or here's another example. Many of us live and do not suspect that "now" flies away from them quite quickly - 86,400 times a day. This number unit was not given a name, but they found out how long a moment lasts: about a hundredth of a second.
As it turned out, some nations are very superstitiousrefer to certain numbers. For example, in Japan and China there is nothing with the number four, since this number represents death itself. Therefore, it is not customary to use it even in hotels.
Israel rejects everything related to Christianity in one way or another, so they don't write a plus sign in math, but just an inverted T.
And in gambling (roulette in a casino), the number 666 is the sum of all the values that are present on the reel.
Entertaining examples
Every person knows from school what happens when you add up all the numbers from one to ten. You forgot? Don't worry, we remind you: the amount will be 54.
Those people who are friends with the exact sciences know that if you add up all the values from 1 to 100, you get a very impressive number - 5050.
You can make a simple calculation and see what happens if you enter the first 3 digits of your phone number (without an operator) into the calculator, multiply them by 80, add 1, then you need to multiply all this by 250, add the last 4 digits your number twice, subtract 250, divide by 2. The answer is an amazing number. It will amaze you, we assure you!
Ig Nobel Prize
Everyone knows what the Nobel Prize is, to whom and for what it is awarded. But besides it, there is another unusual award. It is called the Ig Nobel Prize. Who can become a laureate? It is awarded simultaneously with the Nobel Prize, but, unlike the famous prize,The Shnobel Prize is given for those brilliant projects that at the moment cannot be translated into reality. Or they never will, because they are absurd. In 2009, this award was presented to veterans who proved that a cow with a name gives more milk than one without a name.
Experiment
Surprisingly, scientists conducted an experiment that shows what distance
on the axis people imagine without education. Among the subjects were representatives from the Munduruku tribe and American schoolchildren who cannot count. They were given a set number of dots to look at, and after some time were asked to indicate where the numbers from one to ten were. It turned out that for most people, the smallest values have long distances.
As it turned out, in the field of cooking, there are also interesting facts about mathematics. For example, a cake can be cut in two ways into eight even pieces.
Helpful tips
Many people don't know how to check the authenticity of the euro banknote. But this is relatively easy to do. It is necessary to take a letter from the serial sign and substitute a number (serial number in the alphabet) instead of it. Then you need to add the resulting number with the rest of the values. And after that, add the numbers of the result until one value comes out - 8. It turns out that such interesting facts about mathematics can help verify the authenticity of bills.
If we take several figures (among which there will be a circle) withidentical perimeters, then after a series of calculations it turns out that the circle has the largest area. It is impossible not to notice that if you calculate the perimeter of the circle and other figures, then it will remain in the minority. Yes, it has the smallest perimeter.
Interesting historical facts about mathematics
Today, all people use the decimal system, but this was not always the case. At a time when our ancestors were just beginning to count, they used a system of 20 characters, using their fingers and toes for this. This trend has since changed. For example, in Babylon, people counted not only the fingers, but also the phalanges, which gave the number twelve.
Something else related to the section "Fun and interesting facts about mathematics". As far as everyone knows, the Romans were a smart people. They were good at counting. However, there was one flaw - the number "0". It is now used everywhere, but in Rome it was not. Don't believe? But in vain! Confirmation of the above is the fact that zero cannot be written by any of the known Roman numbers!
Interesting facts about great mathematicians
Albert Einstein was gifted from childhood. But, having a talent in mathematics, he could not enter the Zurich Polytechnic School due to the fact that he did not manage to score the required number of points in other subjects. By the way, such features of development are noted in many geniuses. Soon, having improved his knowledge in the necessary disciplines, Einstein was admitted toclasses at this school.
There are other interesting facts about famous mathematicians. At an American university, graduate student George Dantzig was able to solve two problems that had previously been considered unanswerable. The fact is that the future mathematician was a little late for the lesson. After that, he wrote off these tasks from the board, deciding that they were homework. They seemed complicated, but in a few days George managed to close the question, which scientists have been thinking about for years.
As it turned out, mathematics can be learned not only at school or at the institute, but also at home, looking at wallpapers. In any case, Sophia Kovalevskaya did it.
It so happened that in her childhood she looked at the sheets with lectures on integral and differential calculations in her room,. And the thing is that there simply wasn’t enough wallpaper for the nursery. And thank God!
Surprisingly, with the help of mathematics, you can find out when the last day of your stay on earth will come. Abraham de Moivre (a scientist from Britain) managed to achieve this through arithmetic progression. He noticed that he began to sleep 15 minutes more every day. What came of it? Abraham made a progression that indicated the date when he would have to sleep 24 hours a day. It turned out to be November 27, 1754. Just on that day, the mathematician died.
