Dirac and relativistic quantum mechanics
One of the great protagonists in the creation of what we now call Quantum Mechanics was undoubtedly the Englishman Paul A.M. Dirac. He was born in Bristol in 1902 to a Swiss father –who earned […]
Month: May 2022
The deep beauty of nature (by R. Feynman)
We have already devoted some posts in this blog to the role of beauty in mathematics, and also in physics (for example, this one and this one). Today I bring up the phrase that one […]
Gauss’ other Disquisitiones
We can say that, until the beginning of the 19th century, a surface was seen and studied from the outside, as a two-dimensional object immersed in Euclidean three-dimensional space, like the envelope of a solid […]
From my violin I get the greatest joy in life (by A. Einstein)
Scientific work is often absorbing and exhausting, and it is not uncommon for many scientists to seek balance in other activities, whether physical or intellectual. This was the case with Albert Einstein and music. For […]
Hausdorff and the “free death”, I
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Felix Hausdorff, which is a perfect excuse to dedicate a couple of posts to talk about the inextricable link between mathematics and the human condition, […]
Frogs, Frankenstein and Electrocardiograms
There is a well-known anecdote about a couple of a certain age who go to the hospital because she feels a slight pain in her chest. The doctor takes an electrocardiogram, looks at her and […]