Many countries honour the memory of their scientific personalities on postage stamps. There are many websites devoted to this; one of the most comprehensive, in the case of mathematics, is Images of Mathematicians on Postage […]
One of the most famous anecdotes about mathematics tells us that Hippasus of Metapontion (a Greek colony in the gulf of Tarentum, at the end of the peninsula that is now Italy) was thrown into […]
Update (October 10, 2022) In 2022, a little more than five years after writing this entry, Maryna won the Fields Medal, with the Committee highlighting precisely this work that we have discussed. I am convinced […]
For his anti-Semitic pamphlets, the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline fell out of favour after World War II; he went into exile in Denmark, was convicted in absentia of collaborating with the Nazis, and was eventually […]
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