There is something spooky in the simplicity of the Newton’s apple anecdote, and in how useful it has been throughout history in popularising the figure of Newton as a genius. Something similar had happened before […]
We can say that, due to their immoderation, eternity and infinity are half-brothers and half-sisters. And if infinity has given a lot of play in the hands of mathematicians, eternity has given no less in […]
The workings Who hasn’t recommended taking an ibuprofen tablet for a headache? In January this year, Stewart Adams, who is considered to be its inventor, died. The truth is that the discovery was the work […]
This is the solution to the divertimento Single-dose tablets. The fun A bottle contains 50 single-dose tablets of a medicine and 50 double-dose tablets. On arrival, each patient randomly takes out a pill; if it […]
This year 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of Mirifici logarithmorum canonis constructio (Construction of a marvellous table of logarithms) by John Napier, the creator of Napierian logarithms. John Napier, VIII Baron Merchiston, […]
It is common knowledge that humankind has been fascinated by prime numbers since its origins. On the Ishango bone, an Upper Palaeolithic tool (the fibula of a baboon discovered in 1960 in Africa, to be more […]
Over the course of several posts we have chronicled the birth of quantum theory, the theory that attempts to describe the microscopic world, the micro-world beyond the reach of our sight. Although it was Max […]
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