The Path to Bitcoin
Episode #189 – Gabriel’s Horn: The Shape of Everything
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About this episode
In 1641, Evangelista Torricelli, a student of Galileo, rotated the curve y = 1/x around the horizontal axis and obtained a shape whose interior volume converges to π while its surface area diverges to infinity. Mathematicians of the day called the result an abomination. This episode argues that *Gab