(Greek) geometry and uric acid (by I. Peyró)
Reading Ignacio Peyró’s excellent, though not for the fussy or vegan, Comimos y bebimos (We ate and drank) a few weeks ago, I came across a sentence that, with both wit and irony, linked Greek […]
Month: September 2022
The problem of repeating courses at Arzak
Sancho Garcés III the Elder (born between 992 and 996) was king of Pamplona from 1004 until his death in 1035. His reign is considered to be the period of greatest hegemony of the kingdom […]
And mathematics began to live a peculiar life of its own (II)
As we wrote in a previous post, John Von Neumann (1903-1957) in his article The Mathematician published in 1947, wrote that mathematical ideas originate in the empirical but that once conceived they begin to live […]