Pieter Bruegel the Elder [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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The Coventry Carol
Pieter Bruegel the Elder [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Pieter Bruegel the Elder [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Cooking
Tastes of Christmas Past
You have my dearest lady to either thank or blame for this one. Reminiscing about Xmas at her parents as a child, she has often waxed lyrical about these things called pickled clementines – which [more…]
Hobbies
The Basel Problem
One sometimes gets very interesting results when one turns divergent sums upside down. The Basel problem was asked by Pietro Mengoli in . He asked what is the exact summation of the reciprocals of the [more…]
Mathematics
A Triangle
This is Klauber’s Triangle : – He produced it in the 1930s. The underlying numbers are the natural numbers ℕ and are arranged as follows : – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [more…]