The poetic oeuvre of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), nearly a thousand poems, was discovered by her sister Lavinia when Emily died, and places her in the American Parnassus alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman. During […]
Who does not know Galileo Galilei? For many, the founder of modern science, is probably best known for his conviction in 1633 by the Court of the Inquisition in Rome (for defending Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory) […]
In the next post of Fun & Games we return to the book One hundred problems in elementary Mathematics, by the Polish mathematician Hugo Steinhaus (1887-1972). So today we will devote this entry to continuing […]
For those of us who do the dishes and tidy up the kitchen after a meal, the problem of the sofa is a common one. When, having finished the chores, we get to the sofa […]
4 April 2017 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of John Napier, one of the inventors of logarithms, the other being the Swiss Joost Bürgi. The invention of logarithms has a lot to do […]
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