Years ago the teacher in a college math class I was taking told a story I enjoyed. He claimed the story was absolutely true. While on vacation with his family the pilot on one of the flights decided to have some fun with the passengers by having a contest. He announced the plane’s direction of…
William of Occam was a Franciscan friar, theologian, and philosopher who lived in England from 1287 to 1347. He is known to us today mostly from the problem solving principle he formulated known as Occam’s razor. Although he never said it this clearly Occam’s razor can be summarized as follows: The best solution to a problem…
