Each letter of the word “Mathematical” is written on individual pieces of paper and placed in a bag. You reach into the bag and pull out a letter. What is the probability that it’s a vowel?
Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos had the following assertion about his craft: “A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems”. He also called children epsilons, because in calculus a small positive quantity is denoted by the Greek letter Ɛ.