The Hardy-Ramanujan Number The two different ways 1729 is expressible as the sum of two cubes are 1³ + 12³ and 9³ + 10³. The number has since become known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number, the second so-called “taxicab number”
The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős Paul Erdos is to this day remembered as the man who devoted his entire life to mathematics. Living out of a suitcase traveling from university to university, throughout his life he survived off speaking fees and modest endowments from various universities.
The Heat Equation: Inhomogeneous Boundary Conditions This is the third article in my series on partial differential equations. Before reading further you might want to read part one (9…
Turing Uncomputability “As Leibniz suggested, we appear to live in the best of all possible worlds, where the computable functions make life predictable enough to be survivable ...