The Norwegian mathematician Thoralf Skolem (1887-1963) is not a well-known figure, despite the number and importance of his contributions. He was the author of some 180 articles on diophantine equations, group theory, lattice theory, combinatorics […]
There was a time when Newtonian mechanics was an absolute truth. Its greatest success, the explanation of planetary motions. It is when the hypothesis of a providential God is dropped that the natural question arises: […]
We told in the previous post that on 27 January 1926 the article “Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem” (Quantization as an eigenvalue problem), written by Erwin Schrödinger, was received in the editorial office of the Annalen der […]
The workings: “Lazaro, you tricked me. I’ll swear to God that you ate these grapes three at a time.” “No, I didn’t,” I said. “But why do you think so?” That wise old blind man […]
We publish here the solution to the divertimento The rigged scale. The fun: A trader sells rice using a scale with one arm longer than the other and a single 1 kg weight. In order […]
In the first part of this post, I described how science put Auguste Comte to shame when he postulated the impossibility of knowing the chemical composition of the stars. To compensate for this optimistic view […]
We have already spent some time discussing the emotional cocktail a scientist feels when making a discovery (the eureka moment). The great American writer Mark Twain also considered that making a discovery was one of […]
Continuing with the plan initiated in my recent post, I am going to analyse the latest data from the COVID-19 in Andalusia and I will dare to make some predictions based on the mathematical model introduced […]
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