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Time as a dimension
The word dimension has a very specific technical meaning in mathematics and physics. It’s basically a number needed to specify something. For example the surface of a sheet of paper […]
Remembering Martin Gardner
by David Singmaster from Nature 465, 884 (17 June 2010) doi:10.1038/465884a ‘Mathemagician’ who popularized maths and debunked pseudoscience. From the mid-1950s to the early 1980s, perhaps the most well-known section […]
The Arcane Art of Mathematics
Jerome Bruner said somewhere that an educated man must not be dazzled by the myth that advanced knowledge is the result of wizardry. Unfortunately, mathematicians and educators conspire to maintain […]
Doing the math in Berlin
by Kai Kupferschmidt, Gretchen Vogel, from Science 23 May 2014: Vol. 344 no. 6186 pp. 791-792; doi: 10.1126/science.344.6186.791 When Johanna Wanka was a mathematician in communist East Germany, any foray […]
Modern math
Modern math is like a pyramid, and the broad fundament is often not fun. It is at the higher and apical levels of geometry, topology, analysis, number theory, and mathematical […]
Happy #PiDay 2013
with the Italian Carnival of Mathematics #59
Annalen der Physik: December 2012
Friedrich W. Hehl: A fruitful marriage – when #maths meets #physics goo.gl/nRIK8 — Gianluigi Filippelli (@ulaulaman) January 22, 2013 E. Anderson: Problem of time in quantum gravity goo.gl/LxJzc — Gianluigi […]
Digest: J. Math. Phys. 53
AIP online journals now offer MathJax to display mathematics AIP Publishing has become a MathJax Partner, providing major funding to the MathJax initiative, and now offers MathJax to render mathematics […]
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Carnevale della Matematica #26 su Science Backstage
Ed eccoci giunti all'usuale appuntamento con il Carnevale della Matematica, giunto alla sua 26.ma edizione. E oggi è anche il 14 giugno. E cosa succedeva il 14 giugno di anta anni fa? Era il 1822 […]