Mathematics
How to Perform Calendar Calculations
In less than 30 minutes, learn how to calculate which weekday any given date occurs on
Jørgen Veisdal
Game Theory
The Median Voter Theorem
Why politicians move to the center
Astronomy
The Drake Equation
How to Estimate the Number of Aliens in the Milky Way
Physics
The Bohr-Einstein Debate
The year is 1905. Newly graduated with a Ph.D. in physics, Albert Einstein publishes the paper Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichttspunkt (“On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light”).
Mathematics
Famous Diophantine Equations
A Diophantine equation is an algebraic equation with several unknowns and integer coefficients
History
The Birthplace of AI
An essay about the 1956 “Dartmouth workshop”
Mathematics
What is a Black Swan event?
Necessary and sufficient conditions
Mathematics
The Mathematics of Elo Ratings
Calculating the relative skill of players in zero-sum games
Einstein
Einstein’s Paper on the Photoelectric Effect (1905)
About six weeks before he submitted his doctoral thesis at the University of Zürich in 1905, Einstein on March 18th submitted the paper ‘Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden heuristischen Gesichttspunkt’) to ...
Mathematics
The Math Behind that Dick Joke in HBO’s “Silicon Valley”
Estimating the efficiency of tip-to-tip stimulation
Physics
Brownian Motion in Financial Markets
If asset prices in the short term show an identifiable pattern, won’t speculators will find this pattern and exploit it, thereby…
Mathematics
The Math Problems from Good Will Hunting, w/ solutions
How do you like them apples?