Sendov conjecture
Among the simplest objects in mathematics are polynomials in one variable. Children study them in schools and high schools and, at least many of them, learn to operate with them and understand quite a few […]
Month: April 2022
William Henry Young, 80 years ago
In 1942, 80 years ago now, the English mathematician William Henry Young died in Lausanne, who allowed himself to lead a singular life, combining three successive lives. Until the age of 35 he devoted himself […]
“If 2+2 were 3” by La Renga
La Renga is an Argentinian rock band formed on 31 December 1988 in the city of Buenos Aires. They started playing mainly covers of American and English bands on a street corner in their neighbourhood, […]
Bombs again over Banach hometown
Lviv is a city in western Ukraine. Due to its location, it is currently receiving fewer bombs than other Ukrainian cities further east, such as Mariupol, Kharkiv or Kyiv, although from time to time it […]
Determinism or indeterminism, that is the question
Throughout the different entries published in this section we have been showing how mathematics is the necessary language to understand the universe, as Galileo Galilei explicitly wrote in Il Saggiatore in 1623. This idea was […]