Interesting historical piece from George Forsythe: http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/66/40/CS-TR-66-...

That was weird: an hour ago I was reading "Version Control with Git" about merging and thinking "Hey, this is all just category theory", I then have a look at HN, and see this.

Nice compendium of results.

I hope the misspelling of "Isaac Newton" doesn't indicate errors elsewhere.

Or Heidegger, 'being-in-the-world-with-others' & all that.

Heidegger doesn't seem too far from the mark, judging by Andy Clark's 1997 "Being There":

http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/BeingThere.AClark1998....

The title even seems to be a nod to Heidegger's "dasein" (as well as to Woody Allen).

Don't forget the Calkin-Wilf tree: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~psarb2/MPC/RecountingRationalsTwic...

Nice. An interesting challenge for someone on Shadertoy.

"foo" occurs in the lyrics to Cab Calloway's 1939 Jumpin' Jive, as in this clip, also featuring fabulous tap dancing from the Nicholas Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8

Just has to be face-transitive or isohedral for dice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isohedral_figure

For example: https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/d120-dice

I should add that I have no affiliation with mathsgear, in fact, I was unaware of their existence until just now. They seem to have lots of nice stuff: https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/shapes

Continued fraction approximations p/q have |x-p/q| < 1/q²

Roger Zelazny? He gives an amusing account of him and Delany signing each others books here: http://www.tor.com/2016/05/26/a-few-more-words-from-roger-ze...