Playing with triangles
The workings Three horses pull better than two. This obvious idea is one of the keys to the popularity of the troika, a Russian draught created in the 17th century that allowed a single person […]
Month: November 2019
Solution: playing with triangles
We are publishing here the solution to the divertimento Playing with triangles. The fun A figure consisting of an equilateral triangle and a line parallel to one side passing through its centre is given. A […]
The media and Einstein: a marriage of convenience
The intensity of Einstein’s marriage with the media was a singular sociological fact (see the posts Einstein superstar: the invention of the celebrity scientist, The exquisitely stupid questions of the reporters). Einstein’s dizzying rise to […]
Infinity in slices (by R. Hughes)
The art critic Robert Hughes (1938-2012) bequeathed us one of the most comprehensible works for learning about the Pandora’s box that is contemporary art. The Shock of the New is the title of this now […]
The fabulous Bernoulli family
The Bernoullis are undoubtedly the most famous family saga in the history of mathematics, some of its members being among the great mathematicians of the last third of the 17th century and the whole of […]
The Collatz problem
Collatz (1910-1990) was a mathematician who worked mainly on numerical analysis. He studied in Germany between 1928 and 1935 and as usual he attended several universities: Munich, Göttingen and Berlin. Not surprisingly, he was deeply […]
On quantum supremacy
As the singer Javier Krahe used to say, it is the talk of the town (va de boca en boca), both in the quantum computing community and in the general news, that a Google team […]