Carl Theodore Heisel
Carl Theodore Heisel (1852–1937)[1] was a mathematical crank who wrote several books in the 1930s challenging accepted mathematical truths. Among his claims is that he found a way to square the circle. He is credited with 24 works in 62 publications.[2] Heisel did not charge money for his books; he gave thousands of them away for free. Because of this, they are available at many libraries and universities. Heisel's books have historic and monetary value.[3] Paul Halmos referred to one of Heisel's works as a "classic crank book."[4]
Selected works
- Heisel, Carl Theodore (1934). Mathematical and geometrical demonstrations, disproving numerous theorems, problems, postulates, corolleries, axioms naturally growing out of the extraordinary discoveries of a lacking link (2d. ed.). Cleveland.
gollark: Apparently SQLite actually is faster than the filesystem at retrieving small (<500kB or something) data.
gollark: You could probably use SQLite for a low-traffic messaging app, it *is* quite fast, just not parallelized.
gollark: Well, it has text which is recognizable as numbers.
gollark: It won't be *exact*, being an image and all, but you could probably do "close enough". You would need a lot more resolution on the circle to display it well than the rectangle, though.
gollark: I'm beginning to think that it might be easier to just hand-write SVGs.
References
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21659237/carl-theodore-heisel. Retrieved 31 May 2019. Missing or empty
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(help) - http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2002070146/. Retrieved 16 May 2019. Missing or empty
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(help) - Simanek, Donald E. "Carl Theodore Heisel Squares the Circle". lockhaven.edu. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- Halmos, Paul. "How to Write Mathematics" (PDF). Retrieved 16 May 2019.
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