
“True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.”
[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
Anyway, he hasn't called.
Live and Laughing (2008)
“True, it returns ' ' for false, but ' ' is an even more interesting number than 0.”
[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
“I'm sure a mathematician would claim that 0 and 1 are both very interesting numbers.”
[199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
As expressed in Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (2003) by Peter Atkins, Ch. 10 "Arithmetic : The Limits of Reason", p. 333
Peano axioms
Context: 1. 0 is a number.
2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number.
3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number.
4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor.
5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.
Calling the final out of the 1987 National League Championship Series as the Cardinals advanced to the 1987 World Series.
1980s
Source: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1972), p. 253.
Calling the final out of Bob Gibson's 1971 no-hitter. Gibson struck out Willie Stargell to secure the only no-hitter of his legendary career.
1970s