Mathematics
Alan Turing in America
Pioneering British computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing first arrived in America on the 28th of September 1936.
History
History
The Great Purge of 1933
How Nazism Destroyed Science in Germany
History
The Mathematical Center of the Universe
The inception of quantum mechanics can essentially be traced back to a single “Golden Age” in the mid-1920s at one university: the Georg-August University of Göttingen, in the city of Göttingen in Germany.
Physics
The Eccentricities of J. Robert Oppenheimer
The so-called “Father of the Atomic Bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer was once described as “a genius of the nuclear age and also the walking, talking conscience of science and civilization”.
Mathematics
Understanding Exponents
Countering Our Limited Intuition Towards Exponential Functions
History
The Golden Age of Quantum Physics (1927)
The “most intelligent photograph ever taken”, as it is sometimes known, was captured during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons held in 1927 in Brussels, Belgium.
Mathematics
The Envy-Free Cake-Cutting Procedure
How to Ensure Fairness as a Mechanistic Outcome. Implications for policy?
Mathematics
The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann
Known now as “the last representative of the great mathematicians”, von Neumann’s genius was legendary even in his own lifetime. The sheer breadth of stories and anecdotes about his brilliance, from Nobel Prize-winning physicists to world-class mathematicians abound.
Mathematics
The Four-Color Theorem
Its Surreal Simplicity & Critical Challenge To Re-Define The Modern Theorem
Samuelson
Flavors of Randomness
Implications of the Efficient-Market Hypothesis
Mathematics
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
A summary
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”).