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
Arts
A Christmas Trip to Remember
Mum, Dad, Big Brother and I were off to stay with my aunt and uncle in a small Yorkshire village for Christmas. I had passed my driving test about a year earlier and was to [more…]
Christianity
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Painted in about 1470/75, it is in the National Gallery. One of Caroline’s favourite carols: In memory of Caroline Catherine McNicholas 2nd October 1957 – 3rd January 2022 OldTrout
Hobbies
From a Sum to a Product
In The Basel Problem we saw that Euler answered the question by showing that the sum of the reciprocals of the square numbers is equal to . That is The partial sums slowly converge to [more…]