An Erdős–Woods number is a specific type of integer related to the study of sets of consecutive integers and their relationships to prime numbers. More formally, an integer \( n \) has an Erdős–Woods number if there exists a positive integer \( k \) such that the set of integers: \[ \{ n, n+1, n+2, \ldots, n+k \} \] contains \( k \) or more prime numbers.
silkqin.com by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
John Thompson's Guqin website.
Holy crap amazing list of Guqin pieces by the guy for MP3 download! www.silkqin.com/06hear.htm And the explanations are insane. What a dude. Ciro Santilli's hero.
Download all MP3:
wget -r -np -l 1 -A mp3 http://www.silkqin.com/06hear.htm
Ciro Santilli Contacted John by email in 2019 telling him to put his stuff on YouTube and offering help, and he replied, but nothing came of it unfortunately. Edit: he uploaded a bunch of videos of him playing live in 2020! www.youtube.com/user/silkqin/videos
John focuses on playing the tunes in a "historically informed performance", in particular using silk strings rather than metal ones which are used by most modern artists: www.silkqin.com/08anal/hip.htm
Video 1.
Dialog between Fisherman and Woodcutter performed by John Thompson (2020)
Source.
Pipa piece by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
TODO identify better:
Video 1.
Posing As a Wind Instrument Player In an Ensemble by Li Xuan
. Source. Part of "Chinese Ancient Music - Vol 2, High Mountains And Flowing Water", e.g. as seen at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=If7ARKoMiKI.
Unclear legality:
A Hankel matrix is a specific type of structured matrix that has the property that each ascending skew-diagonal from left to right is constant. In more formal terms, a Hankel matrix is defined by its entries being determined by a sequence of numbers; the entry in the \(i\)-th row and \(j\)-th column of the matrix is given by \(h_{i,j} = a_{i+j-1}\), where \(a\) is a sequence of numbers.
Triton is the largest moon of Neptune and the seventh-largest moon in the solar system. It was discovered on October 10, 1846, by British astronomer William Lassell just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself. Triton is particularly interesting for several reasons: 1. **Retrograde Orbit**: Triton has a unique retrograde orbit, meaning it orbits Neptune in the opposite direction to the planet's rotation.
Russian cryptographers are individuals from Russia who specialize in the study and practice of cryptography, which is the science of securing communication and information by transforming it into a secure format. This field encompasses a variety of techniques and methodologies for encoding messages, ensuring confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation. Historically, Russia has a prominent role in the development of cryptographic techniques and cryptographic theory, especially during the Cold War era, when secure communication was vital for national security.
Siarnaq is a celestial body, specifically a moon of the planet Saturn. It is one of the smaller moons of Saturn and is classified as a member of the irregular moons, which tend to have eccentric and inclined orbits. Siarnaq was discovered in 2000, and it is named after a figure in Inuit mythology. The moon is characterized by its distinctive features, including a relatively dark surface and a composition thought to be primarily composed of ice and rock.
The 60th meridian west is a line of longitude that is 60 degrees west of the Prime Meridian, which is located at 0 degrees longitude. This meridian runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and passes through several countries in North America and South America, including parts of Canada, the United States, and countries in the Caribbean and South America, such as Colombia.
Linear motion refers to the motion of an object along a straight path. It can be described in terms of displacement, velocity, acceleration, and time. In linear motion, the position of an object changes in a straight line and can be characterized by the following key concepts: 1. **Displacement**: The shortest distance from the initial position to the final position of the object, which includes the direction of the movement.
The Treaty of Zaragoza, signed on April 22, 1529, was an agreement between Spain and Portugal that established a maritime boundary between the two nations in the Spice Islands, also known as the Moluccas. This treaty was a follow-up to the Treaty of Tordesillas, which had previously divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal.
Yevgeny Dyakonov is a Russian scientist known for his work in the field of theoretical physics, particularly in areas related to condensed matter physics and electromagnetism. He is recognized for contributions to the study of electromagnetic phenomena, spintronics, and related materials.

Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
We have two killer features:
  1. topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus
    Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
    • a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
    • a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
    This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
    Figure 1.
    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
    . View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
  2. local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:
    This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
    Figure 2.
    You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either https://OurBigBook.com or as a static website
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    Figure 3.
    Visual Studio Code extension installation
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    Figure 4.
    Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation
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    Figure 5.
    Web editor
    . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
    Video 3.
    Edit locally and publish demo
    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
    Video 4.
    OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo
    . Source.
  3. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook-media/master/feature/x/hilbert-space-arrow.png
  4. Infinitely deep tables of contents:
    Figure 6.
    Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
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    Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact