Christmas Lunch
The workings The Fun and Games area is going to take a well-deserved holiday. But not before proposing a special divertimento to help you get through the Christmas season. It has to do with the […]
Month: December 2017
Solution: Christmas lunch
We publish here the solution to the divertimento Christmas lunch. The Fun A chef is about to slaughter a turkey for Christmas dinner, but the animal revolts and escapes. The cook, surprised, takes a few […]
Schwartz, Bohr, Fields
Let’s face it, we love anniversaries that are multiples of 10 (not to mention those that are multiples of 25). Among the various X-anniversaries being celebrated this year, I have noticed, because of their curious […]
Edward Lorenz (1917-2008): with him began chaos
This year 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward N. Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist, a key figure in the birth of chaos theory. Lorenz studied mathematics at Dartmouth College in New […]