Monthly Archives: April 2011

Q: Why is the integral/antiderivative the area under a function?

Posted on April 4, 2011 by The Physicist

Physicist: If you’ve taken calculus, then at some point you learned that to find the area under a function (generally written ) you need to find the anti-derivative of that function.  The most natural response to these types of theorems … Continue reading →

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Thank you!

Posted on April 2, 2011 by The Physicist

Dear reader, we are excited to announce that, for the first time in the history of the universe, AskAMathematician.com has broken 100,000 page views in a single month! This is significant because it is approximately the number of fingers that … Continue reading →

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Mathematical proof of the existence of God.

Posted on April 1, 2011 by The Physicist

Physicist: This derivation isn’t particularly easy, but bear with me.  It’s essentially a re-phrasing of a joint work by Descartes, Godel, and Hawking. Beginning with the unitarity of quantum probability you find the non-vanishing deism coefficient manifest. The set of … Continue reading →

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