T T T=<em>N</em>

Occasionally he made a comment similar to Archimedes' "Eureka!" about a discovery, as he did when he wrong T T T=N. This is part of number theory, the field that Gauss called the Queen of Mathematics. A triangular number T is a number that you can get by adding up a string of consecutive whole numbers beginning with one. The number 6 is triangular because you can get it by adding 1 2 3, and 15 is triangular because you can get it by adding 1 2 3 4 5. The number 5,050, the sum of the first 100...

 The Moon is Binary in Nature

Having heard the poem, Monkey went up to him and said, "Master, you only know about the moon's beauty, and you're homesick too. You don't know what the moon's really about. It's like the carpenter's line and compasses−−it keeps the heavenly bodies in order. On the thirtieth of every month the metal element of its male soul has all gone, and the water element of its female soul fills the whole disk. That is why it goes black and has no light. That's what is called the end of the old moon. ...

 Alexander Graham Bell's Hypothesis

I have read somewhere that the resistance offered by a wire ... is affected by the tension of the wire. If this is so, a continuous current of electricity passed through a vibrating wire should meet with a varying resistance, and hence a pulsatory action should be induced in the current ... [corresponding] in amplitude, as well as in rate of movement, to the vibrations of the string ... [Thus] the timbre of a sound [a quality essential to intelligible speech] could be transmitted ... [and] th...