Line dividing a triangle
The workings: As every year, the amusement section takes a well-deserved break for a few weeks, but not without once again offering our readers a special problem to liven up lazy summer afternoons. The fun: […]
Month: July 2022
Solution: line dividing a triangle
We publish here the solution to the divertimento Line dividing a triangle. The fun: Those of us who thought of including in our blog a section in which to pose problems for the entertainment of […]
Bourbaki storms the ICM
In the 1930s, a daring group of young French mathematicians, emulating Euclid’s foundational text, began the publication of a magnum opus: the Éléments de Mathématique. The aim was to provide a structured and rigorous presentation […]
“I am the flower in the buttonhole” (by A. Einstein)
In 1925, Einstein made a three-month tour of South America. In Argentina he did not know how he would be received, because during the First World War the strong German community there had vilified him, […]