
The Impossible Number
Curious Cases
How to Solve Cubic Equations
Around this time, the Renaissance, there's a lot of this going on. You can get university teaching posts by solving equations that other mathematicians can't solve. So if you know the solution to a cubic equation, you can challenge somebody who's got a job you want. And so he just doesn't want to get distracted, so he just leaves it. He happens next. Hey, which is, I would have gone with Heron of Alexandria, if I knew anything about him, him, a bird. Is that a Heron? Not actually a Heron. Okay. It's useful information. Thank you.
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