What is your lucky number ?
Do you have a lucky number? If you are a perfectly rational person, yet you continue to buck statistics and gravitate toward certain digits, you aren't alone.
"People have been doing this for centuries," said B. Sidney Smith, a mathematician and founder of the website PlatonicRealms.com. "Numbers underlying reality is an ancient tradition that pops up in all civilizations historically." He cited Pythagoras, the Greek philospher and mathematician whose theories are still used today
"Once Western civilization became a faith-based society, numbers had this mystical tinge and it became a dangerous thing, like it was secret and naughty," he said. "My degree is in mathematical logic, so I'm a doctor of rationality. (Believing in lucky numbers) has nothing to do with mathematics, which is all logic and reasoning — but that doesn't make it any less beautiful or interesting."
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"People have been doing this for centuries," said B. Sidney Smith, a mathematician and founder of the website PlatonicRealms.com. "Numbers underlying reality is an ancient tradition that pops up in all civilizations historically." He cited Pythagoras, the Greek philospher and mathematician whose theories are still used today
"Once Western civilization became a faith-based society, numbers had this mystical tinge and it became a dangerous thing, like it was secret and naughty," he said. "My degree is in mathematical logic, so I'm a doctor of rationality. (Believing in lucky numbers) has nothing to do with mathematics, which is all logic and reasoning — but that doesn't make it any less beautiful or interesting."
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Your eleven Lucky Lottery Number Generators are here: LuckyNumbers 4U.
