The author of this book, Seth Lloyd, is quite an interesting person. He is a theoretical physicist and professor at MIT in the Mechanical Engineering department, of all places. He considers himself the first quantum-mechanical engineer and has created quite a neat niche for himself in this realm. I have had the pleasure of meeting [...]

Posted at 11:05 PM on Tuesday, January 4th, 2011
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**Updated to make up for my ignorance in assuming things about infinite sums…** 12/01/2010 Given the following statement, what would the “logical” answer be: \[ 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + \ldots \; = \; ? \] Someone without any mathematical knowledge (but knowledge of what the above mathematical symbols mean, of course) [...]

Posted at 4:26 AM on Saturday, November 20th, 2010
Filed under: Mathematics, Philosophy by caleb
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