As we commented in the post The Triumph of Reason: Newton’s Programme, after the appearance of Newton’s Principia many of the great scientists set out to study natural phenomena armed with the physical principles described […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
In the previous post entitled Does God play dice? we saw how Max Born brought probability into physics in a totally new way. Not as it had already done, for example, in the case of […]
In this third post focused on how an epidemic can be modelled (the previous posts can be seen here and here) we will show two possible models to describe the dynamics of the epidemic when […]
In the posts entitled Bringing some order I, II and III we have described the birth of a new mechanics: quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics was intended to explain what Newtonian mechanics was unable to describe: the […]
Introduction This article is a continuation of a previous post in which we studied the evolution of an epidemic using a very simple toy model (for more details as well as a general discussion on […]
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