Reading Undiluted Hocus-Pocus, the autobiography of Martin Gardener, mathematician and magician (He wrote the puzzle column for scientific America for years), Mathspig was bemused to read that statistician William Feller lived on Random Road in Princeton.
Mathspig totally confused Google Maps by searching for so many Maths streets, roads, drives, lanes and crescents. Mr Google began to think Mathspig was stuck on Infinity Street or lost at Cartesian Place.
What place boasts the most mathematical street names in the world (so far):
1. Paris
There are nearly 100 Parisian streets, squares, boulevards etc. named after mathematicians and not necessarily French mathematicians.
Street names include:
Rue Laplace
Rue Bernoulli
Rue Newton
There is, surprisingly, no street named after Fourier in Paris. But the street on which he was born in Auxerre has been renamed after this great mathematician.
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2. Salisbury, South Australia
Surprisingly, the most ‘mathsy’ place Mathspig has discovered so far is an outer suburb of Adelaide, south Australia. Maths street names include:
Equation Rd
Parallell Ave
Chord Rd
Log Rd
Tangent Ave
Quadrant Ave
Meridian Rd
Degree Rd
Decimal Rd
Latitude Rd
Co-ordinate RD
Fibonacci in Budafest
Not by name, by design.
3. New York, NY, USA
You can’t get lost in New York. It is a grid city.
Eg. 812 East 23rd St means No. 12, block 8 East of Broadway.
There is a Sine Rd in Auburn New York,
but it’s not this one. Pity!
Here is a fun Maths exercise to get Middle School students thinking about maths.
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Ans. 1. Massey, NZ. 2. TRIANGLE. 3. State Ave 4. 0.7 miles, 1.1 km. 5. It has 3 right angles 6. 0.4 miles, 0.6 km. 7. No. The triangle is not a right angle triangle. 8. David W Carter Hight School) 9. Only 2 ARITHMETIC CR, Landon, SC and ARITHMETIC Dr, Salem, MA. 10. O.4 miles, 0.6 km.
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