Kurt Gödel and Donald Trump
The election of the 45th President of the United States is being unusual for several reasons. One is that for the first time one of the contenders is a woman. But the biggest oddity comes […]
Month: November 2016
Sorcerer’s Apprentices
The manufacture of the first atomic bombs during the Second World War was a turning point in history, where science and technology had to fight in the ring of ethics. And mathematics was also involved. […]
An eschatological view of bureaucracy (by A. Einstein)
Bureaucracy is like cholesterol, there is the good one and the bad one. Good bureaucracy is a blessing, but bad bureaucracy clogs arteries, clogs hearts and kills. Although Albert Einstein is famous for having constructed […]
A polished diamond
This is the first post in the Blogosphere of the revamped IMUS Blog. And since the Well-ordering principle tells us that every list has a first element, in the mathematical blogosphere there is also one. […]
Solution: The problem of the corrupt politicians
The solution to the puzzle “The problem of the corrupt politicians” is the following: If \(x\) is the number of stolen banknotes, the conditions of the problem are: $$ \begin{cases} x = 4x_1 + 1 […]