The lottery in Babylon

15 February, 2017 Guillermo Curbera0

The Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges was intensely attracted by certain mathematical ideas, especially those that are most disturbing to common sense. His stories are populated by books with infinite pages, and books between whose […]

Hardy and the bishops

7 December, 2016 Guillermo Curbera1

It turns out that now bishops have a clear opinion against cremation. Too late for jews and witches burned in the autos de fe of the Inquisition. The English mathematician G. H. Hardy had something […]