Squares and factoring
Cryptography can be very useful, but our goal as mathematicians is to solve problems. So it is to find ways to break codes, not to provide them. For example, one big goal is to find […]
Month: October 2018
We must remember; we shall remember! (on the subject of immigration)
What is currently happening with immigration in Europe leads me to rephrase Hilbert’s famous statement “We must know; we shall know” as “We must remember, we shall remember.” The flood of statements issued and […]
Fractals: beautiful and useful
What is a fractal? A fractal is a geometric object characterised by a repeating structure at different scales. In a sense, it is an endless pattern. For example, Figure 1 shows a fractal in the […]
María Pagés, Neruda and numbers
It is common knowledge that numbers are omnipresent and one ends up encountering them where least expected. This happened to me a few days ago, when I attended the show that the bailaora María Pagés […]