Conversations during the Last Supper
The workings There has been much debate as to whether Judas was free to decide to betray Jesus Christ, or whether it was imposed on him by divine command that Christ had to be sacrificed. […]
Month: March 2018
Solution: Conversations during the Last Supper
This is the solution to the Divertimento Conversations during the last supper. The fun A group of \(n\) people agree to have dinner together on different evenings. Each time they sit around a round table […]
The adventures of the “guarismo” in the Royal Spanish Academy’s dictionary
I think the first time I came across the word “guarismo” was when I was reading Azorín. It must have been when adolescence made pimples sprout on my face as easily as springtime makes orange […]
Multiplication is easier than you might think
What would shock Gauss most if he were to come back to life would be to learn that the studies he did to determine the eccentricity of the asteroid Juno (0.254236) are used today to […]
But is this Physics or Maths?
We have already discussed in these pages that Mathematics is the language of the Universe as well as the essential role it plays in the scientific method. In this entry we are going to look […]