Kovalevskaya: From Theorems to Poems
Sofia Kovalevskaya (whose name is sometimes written as Sonia Kovalevsky, due to the vagaries of transcription) said that “it is impossible to be a mathematician without also having the soul of a poet”. A very […]
Month: July 2019
James Dean, traffic jams in Sao Paulo and the Burgers Equation
Traffic: catastrophes, inconveniences and models It was perhaps the most notorious car crash in History. It took place on 30 September 1955 in Cholame (California, USA). On that day, James Dean, a 24-year-old actor who […]