History
The Birthplace of AI
An essay about the 1956 “Dartmouth workshop”
History
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 ...
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…
Ramanujan
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”
Erdős
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.
Mathematics
The Poincaré Conjecture (1904)
The shape of the universe as it was, is now and may become in the future is very hard for us to discern empirically. Einstein helped us somewhat by showing us that matter and energy (three-dimensional phenomena) in fact may interact with the a four-dimensional phenomenon: time
Einstein
Einstein and Hilbert’s Relativity Race
The published version of a talk by mathematician David Hilbert (1862-1943), dated the 20th of November 1915 is entitled ‘Die Grundlagen der Physik’ (“On the Foundations of Physics”).
Mathematics
The Beautiful Life of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
“He was so incredibly himself” — Herta Newman
Mathematics
The Nature of Infinity — and Beyond
An introduction to Georg Cantor’s transfinite paradise