Atomic structure and the problem of spectra It was an accepted fact in 1913 that the atom consisted of a “heavy” and “dense” nucleus containing all the matter of the atom, and electrons whirling around […]
The New York Times, 1995: an article is released about the industrialised society and its future. The author argues that industrialisation and technological revolutions have been disastrous for the human race, despite positive consequences such […]
On 11 March 1993, journalist Eric Zorn wrote a column about his grandfather, who had died in his lap two days earlier. The title of the column, “Mathematical wizard, hero for his family”, was as […]
Woody Allen’s life has been made very difficult by the revival of allegations of sexual abuse of his former partner’s –Mia Farrow– adopted daughter. The abuse of Dylan Farrow allegedly occurred on 4 August 1992 […]
Almost three months ago, we launched the COVID-19 Emergency section in this blog to make Mathematics cast some light and perspective on the situation caused by the coronavirus epidemic. The first entry was published on […]
In the fourth month of the flood season in the 33rd year of the reign of Pharaoh Apophis I (16th century BC) the scribe Ahmes was copying on parchment a collection of mathematical problems. The […]
In our previous post, we learned about the partitioning problem, and here we will look at the contributions that Ramanujan made together with Hardy. Ramanujan’s work One of the topics that Hardy and Ramanujan worked […]
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