We owe John Allen Paulos some highly recommendable books of mathematical popularisation, including Innumeracy (El Hombre Anumérico in its Spanish translation). It is precisely in this work that Paulos confessed how important his middle name, […]
The IMUS, with the participation of the Faculty of Mathematics, will hold a one-day event on Wednesday 19 February to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passing of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In the […]
Literature and movies Time travel has been the subject of a great deal of literary, film and television work, from the famous “The Time Machine” by H.G. Wells (1985) to the recent series “El Ministerio […]
In 1919, the German mathematician Felix Hausdorff (1868-1942) greatly enriched the concept of spatial dimension. Hausdorff said that it was very unsophisticated, and even incorrect, to say that an object has dimension one if it […]
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