Thursday, April 20, 2006
gaussian money
For those of you that have been to Germany, this will be old news. To the rest of you, you are in for a delcious factoid of monumental proportions!
Gauss, the famous mathematican who is revered for the famous Gaussian distribution (bell-shaped curve) , is evidently German.
In fact, his equation and a plot is seen on a dutch mark (marc?):
Cool huh?
On the front is a picture of Gauss.
I really like this. While our founding fathers more than deserve being on our money, but why can't science and math get some cred? like on a anniversy coin or something. America has an excellent history of scientific discovery. I think we are 1st in Nobels Prizes (but not per cap), why not celebrate it?
With recognition like this, no wonder Germany excells at engineering; manufacturing; and fat, bearded women.
Gauss, the famous mathematican who is revered for the famous Gaussian distribution (bell-shaped curve) , is evidently German.
In fact, his equation and a plot is seen on a dutch mark (marc?):
Cool huh?
On the front is a picture of Gauss.
I really like this. While our founding fathers more than deserve being on our money, but why can't science and math get some cred? like on a anniversy coin or something. America has an excellent history of scientific discovery. I think we are 1st in Nobels Prizes (but not per cap), why not celebrate it?
With recognition like this, no wonder Germany excells at engineering; manufacturing; and fat, bearded women.
# posted by fooiemcgoo : 2:08 PM
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I am not sure, but i would guess that they all have the same money (worth), but there is local printings, so they can put their own countries' stuff on it.
someone confirm this?
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someone confirm this?
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