It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Saturday, September 4, 2021

The Form Sucks But The Content Makes Me Messianic

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Please see Author's Comment

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3 comments:

  1. Originally written in 1998,
    the complete "Original Ten Commandments"
    was much too long to re-type completely
    as a GodFather of Math page

    Were the OTC to have given a fresh start
    within my blogs, a more accurate title
    would have been "The Pythagorean Ten Commandments"
    but the actual Pythagoreans had the equivalent
    of fifteen commandments which bear absolutely
    no resemblance to the above.

    "Matt Maddox" is a pun which dates back to
    at least 1977

    As for the missing commandments:

    The importance of 4 can be measured
    by how many chairs and tables have Four legs

    8 is the first cubic number,
    that is 8 = 2 x 2 x 2

    9 is the court jester
    responsible for a wide variety
    of math tricks

    10 would have been
    an ornery number if we were born with
    something other than ten fingers
    and ten toes

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    1. The importance of 1
      is enough to give it a comment page
      of its own

      It is Numero Uno, that is,
      it is the number that refers
      to each and every self
      amongst us

      Without 1, there would be no ego

      ONE is also ONederful
      and has the power of invisibility.
      For example, every number in the OTC
      van be regarded as a fraction
      with an invisible denominator
      of 1

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