(pronounced Air-Dersh) was the most prolific mathematician of
all time. He wrote almost 1500 papers with many others, leading
to the creation of the Erdös number , connecting mathematicians
to each other by way of their co-authored papers. Even a horse
has an Erdös number of 3. He also had his own language - if a
person had "left", they had died, but if they had "died", they
had stopped doing mathematics. posted by Orange Goblin on Nov
18, 2003 - The colour of numbers - For the math geeks out there
(which I'm not - maybe his theories will be shot down in
flames), Karl Palmen has discovered that numbers can be assigned
one of eight "colours", related to their prime factors. He goes
on to show the interesting mathematical properties of these
colours. A novel way of playing with numbers. Software is on
offer posted by Jimbob on Aug 11, 2003 - is an environment that
generates small, walking computational organisms. "Each walking
thing is built up from totally random conditions. Appearance,
behavior, and walking c