Over the next few months we will be devoting some Fun & Games to the book One hundred problems in elementary Mathematics, by the Polish mathematician Hugo Steinhaus (1887-1972). Together with his colleague Stefan Banach, Steinhaus […]
The geometric decomposition of a figure to compose a different one with the pieces is a mathematical problem thousands of years old. For example, Stomachion is a Greek word meaning “bellyache”, but it is […]
Omar Khayyam was a fascinating Persian mathematician, poet, astronomer, astrologer and philosopher who lived between the 11th and 12th centuries. The figure of Khayyam could be the subject of dozens of posts. I will devote […]
The workings Behind today’s Divertimento lies the tricky question of the passage of time, of how we age. The American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald explored in a story what a human life could be like […]
This is the solution to the Divertimento A matter of time. Divertimento There are people who don’t like to tell their age. One of them just says that if birthdays were only celebrated, as they […]
This year marks the 300th anniversary of Leibniz’s death. For this reason, the IMUS, in partnership with the Faculty of Mathematics, has dedicated this year’s “Year of …” to him – a series of lectures […]
It was August 1966 when Steven Smale reached Moscow to attend the International Congress of Mathematicians. These congresses, veritable Olympiads of mathematics, had been held since 1897 at regular intervals of four years (except for […]
1.- Introduction of the Malthusian model Thomas Robert Malthus was born in 1766 in Surrey, a county in south-east England, UK. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied philosophy and theology until he graduated […]
It turns out that now bishops have a clear opinion against cremation. Too late for jews and witches burned in the autos de fe of the Inquisition. The English mathematician G. H. Hardy had something […]
The statue of Fibonacci in the Camposanto Monumentale annexed to the cathedral and the famous leaning tower of Pisa has a face that is more meditative than pensive; the dark circles under the eyes and […]
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