1729: the Ramanujan (and Hardy) number
The number 1729 acquired a life of its own in the most famous of the anecdotes that weave the relationship between Hardy and Ramanujan. This is how Hardy described it in the obituary he published […]
Month: September 2020
Even now, confinement can save lives
We have already written a couple of entries showing the impact that early and strong confinement measures have on reducing the number of deaths from the current Covid-19 epidemic (see Covid-19: early confinement helps save […]
The opening of schools in times of pandemic: the case of Andalusia
We will begin this post with a statement of principles that will soon be understood as to why it is necessary: in Science not everything goes. The term scientific evidence used to justify measures of […]
Torsion in elliptic curves on numerical fields (explained for you)
Elliptic curves are, without doubt, one of the most captivating objects in the mathematical universe. They combine two features that rarely appear together: they are simple as objects (that is, they are simple to understand… […]
What can be the meaning of the number of detected people infected by Covid-19 at the beginning of September?
With great concern, we have been witnessing, almost since mid-July, how the number of those infected by COVID-19, as compiled by the Department of Health, has reached and even surpassed (in quite a few Autonomous […]
“Packing” the students in the classroom
At the time of writing this paper we are almost six months into the pandemic (covid-19) and by all indications we will still have some time until Science can find an effective vaccine that will […]
Coronaplastics and the Ocean Cleanup System
In a previous post (see Plastic waste in the ocean), I referred to a serious environmental problem of our times: the accumulation of plastic debris in the sea in five huge “patches” containing millions of […]