Luzin and the Soviets
Russians born in the 1880s were not a lucky generation. Having to adapt to the whole series of changes brought about by the end of Tsarism, World War I, the Russian Revolution and the subsequent […]
Month: April 2019
And waves became particles
In a previous post we described how Einstein, in order to explain various phenomena including the photoelectric effect, recovered Newton’s idea that light is composed of small particles (today called photons) to which he assigned […]
What’s new on multiplication?
So far all methods of multiplying numbers of \(n\) digits take a time of the order of \(n(\log n) f(n)\) with \(f(n)\) being a function tending to infinity with \(n\) slower than \(\log n\). A […]
Einstein and the perihelion of Mercury
Perihelion is the closest point in a planet’s orbit to the Sun. And Mercury’s happens to behave rather strangely: it moves slightly around the Sun each year and drags the entire orbit with it – […]