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Archive for February, 2008
Meeting Overview 02/05/08
Published by February 24th, 2008 in Policy and Meeting Records. 8 CommentsI apologize for my abysmal performance in (not) getting these records up. For this entry, I’ll be availing myself of my right, in the name of expediency, to summarize (rather than transcribe) a meeting’s contents. The topic: the Fair Tax.
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VR began by explaining the Fair Tax as “a piece of legislation drafted by Congressman John […]
In the early 18th and 19th centuries, most mathematicians thought that continuous functions were differentiable everywhere except perhaps at a few various points. In 1806, Andre Marie Ampere tried, and failed, to prove this result, which was subsequently known as Ampere’s Theorem. He also failed to provide a counterexample. Lagrange later attempted to prove the […]
