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3 unusual facts about pseudomathematics


Pseudomathematics

Doubling the cube: Given any cube drawing a cube with twice its volume.

Squaring the circle: Given any circle drawing a square having the same area.

French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, and Bulgarian-French philosopher Julia Kristeva have been accused of misusing mathematics in their work; see Fashionable Nonsense (1998) by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont.


Numerology

Numerology and numerological divination by systems such as isopsephy were popular among early mathematicians, such as Pythagoras, but are no longer considered part of mathematics and are regarded as pseudomathematics or pseudoscience by modern scientists.


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