Young as a young man
The famous Young Young is a relatively common surname in the world. As of today, there are 616416, 88481 and 54016 people named Young respectively in the United States, England and Canada. Let us ask […]
Month: June 2022
Greek geometry, algebraic geometry and transcendence
A few days ago Rafa Nadal won his 14th Roland-Garros title, we all heard about it, but few have heard about a much greater triumph of a Spanish mathematician in Paris, Javier Fresán. A Navarrese […]
Condorcet and the happiness of the “Negroes”
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, better known as the Marquis de Condorcet, was a prominent member of The Enlightenment, described in the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary as “a period in Europe in the 18th century […]
Hausdorff and the “free death” (and II)
I wrote a previous post on some aspects of Felix Hausdorff’s intellectual output, both mathematical as well as literary. And I finished just as he retired from the University of Bonn in 1935 and, as […]