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An interview with Ben Orlin, author of the book 'Math with Bad Drawings,' as well as the blog of the
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Black holes are objects that seem exotic to us because they have properties that boggle our comparat
The idea of something that is inescapable, at first glance, seems to violate our sense of freedom. T
In the United States, the fourth of July is celebrated as a national holiday, where the focus of tha
The history of physics as a natural science is filled with examples of when an experiment will demon
The fabric of the natural world is an issue of no small contention: philosophers and truth-seekers u
A paradox is characterized either by a logical problem that does not have a single dominant expert s
The spectre of disease causes untold mayhem, anguish, and desolation. The extent to which this spect
Information theory was founded in 1948 by Claude Shannon, and is a way of both qualitatively and qua
In the study of mathematics, there are many abstractions that we deal with. For example, we deal wit
Gödel, Escher, Bach is a book about everything from formal logic to the intricacies underlying the m
Some see the world of thought divided into two types of ideas: evolutionary and revolutionary ideas.
From MC²’s statement of mass energy equivalence and Newton’s theory of gravitation to the sex ratio
The art of mathematics has proven, over the millennia, to be a practical as well as beautiful pursui
Duration and proximity are, as demonstrated by Fourier and later Einstein and Heisenberg, very close
From our first breath of the day to brushing our teeth to washing our faces to our first sip of coff
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