Floating bodies
Archimedes on floating bodies One of Archimedes’ works deals with floating bodies. It came as a great surprise to me when I read the second proposition of this work of Archimedes: Proposition 2. The surface […]
geometry
2020, a great year
I mean for mathematics. I have been reading arXiv entries related to my activity on a daily basis for many years. This year I have noticed an explosion of articles. Confinement has made mathematicians work […]
The squaring of the circle
Problemas clásicos How envious of the Greeks of classical times! Their gods posed mathematical problems, as when the Delphic oracle asked them to double the cubic altar to appease the plagues. We have here a […]
Dürer’s problem
Dürer is known as a painter, but there is no doubt that in a certain sense he was a mathematician (see the post Pacioli, Dürerand the higly secret science of the human body). Indeed, it […]
The Happy End Problem
Today we comment on the article On the Erdös-Szekeres convex polygon problem by Andrew Suk published online in the Journal of the American Mathematical Society. Before commenting on the content of the article, we will […]