- “the art of using bogus mathematical arguments to prove something that you know in your heart is true — even when it’s not.”
"Proofiness": Fibbing with Numbers
"Proofiness": Fibbing with Numbers
Sept 19, 2010: A new book by Chrales Seife is called "Proofiness - The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception". Like its' cousin, "Truthiness", made popular by Stephen Colbert and the Word of the Year in 2005, "Proofiness" is the numerical cousin defined as
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