Feynman
When Feynman met Dirac
Beloved late physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988) first met his hero Paul Dirac (1902–1984) during Princeton University’s Bicentennial Celebration in 1946 and then again at least twice, in 1948 and 1962.
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Bayesian Statistics
The Carter Catastrophe
A Bayesian argument for why humans will soon be extinct
Modular Arithmetic
60 Seconds & 360 Degrees
A Primer on the Sexagemisal System (Base-60)
Analysis
Taylor Series And The Power Of Approximation
We take a deeper look at what Taylor Series does and how we can obtain polynomials for approximating non-polynomial functions.
Pi
Estimating π with Monte-Carlo-Simulations
The easy, the sophisticated and the surprising way of estimating π
Astrophysics
Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion
The laws of planetary motion.
Mathematics
Alan Turing in America
Pioneering British computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing first arrived in America on the 28th of September 1936.
Topology
The Hodge Conjecture
Get $1 million if you solve this math problem.
Quantum Physics
Schrödinger’s Equation
“So do any of you guys know quantum physics?” Paul Rudd in Avengers: Endgame
Analysis
Root-Finding Algorithms
Ways of determining when an equation is equal to zero
Graph Theory
Measuring Network Centrality
An Intro To Quantifying “Importance” Through Graph Theory
Feynman
Richard Feynman’s Distinction between Future and Past
“We have a different kind of awareness about what might happen than we have of what probably has happened”