History
Intuition, Complexity and The Last Paradox
AI since Artistotle (Part 3)
History
History
The Limit of Logic and The Rise of The Computer
AI since Aristotle (Part 2)
Logic
Logic, Intuition and Paradox
AI since Aristotle (Part 1)
Hardy
G. H. Hardy — Rigorous & Shy
Beauty is the first test: There is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. — GH Hardy in A Mathematician’s Apology
Calculus
The Famous Problem of the Brachistochrone
From Newton’s “Lion Claws” to the Modern Solution
Fermat
Pierre de Fermat is Much More Than His Little and Last Theorem
A journey through Fermat’s pseudoprimes and Fermat numbers
Wald
Survivorship Bias: The Mathematician Who Helped Win WWII
The legend of Abraham Wald
Zero
Zero the Hero
Gems in STEM: The History of Zero
Number Theory
The Discovery Of The First Irrational Number
How Hippasus of Metapontum ended up being drowned at sea for coming up with a groundbreaking proof.
Abel
The Mozart of Mathematics — Niels Henrik Abel
“Although Abel shared with many mathematicians a complete lack of musical talent, I will not sound absurd if I compare his kind of…
Ramanujan
Ramanujan’s Early Work on Continued Fractions
“I had never seen anything in the least like [it] before” — G.H. Hardy On or about the 31st of January 1913, mathematician G.H. Hardy (1877-1947) of Trinity College at Cambridge University received a parcel of papers from Madras, India. The package included a cover letter where a young
Calculus
Calculus and the Legend of the Founding of Carthage
How modern calculus of variations solved an ancient math problem.