This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American On this very special Valentine’s Day episode ...

For those unaware of this neat little mathematical curiosity, the "wobbly table theorem" is kind of an application of the broader intermediate value theorem, a corollary of which basically says that ...

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Properties of the real numbers, infimum and supremum of sets. Numerical sequences and series. Limits of functions, continuous functions, intermediate value theorem, uniform continuity. Differentiation ...