Newton’s chamber pot
The catechism of the Catholic Church states that those who go to heaven will be able to enjoy all good things without any mixture of evil. Something similar could be said of the image that […]
Month: June 2018
Football maths and the new culture minister
When the Minister of Culture and Sport wrote in this tweet in 2010 He probably spoke his mind more freely than he does now. Like the minister, I can’t stand football. Franco used it to […]
Dürer’s problem
Dürer is known as a painter, but there is no doubt that in a certain sense he was a mathematician (see the post Pacioli, Dürerand the higly secret science of the human body). Indeed, it […]
The Triumph of Reason: Newton’s Programme
Since ancient times human beings have tried to understand and explain how the world around them works. The first attempt was the creation of gods. The ancient Greeks, for example, had gods for every taste. […]
Solution: Beetles
We publish the solution to the Beetles divertimento. This problem was proposed by Jean-Paul Delahaye, based on an earlier problem popularised by Peter Winkler. The fun Nine beetles are placed in a circular loop whose […]