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Alan Turing, the man who taught computers to think
Monday, July 5th, 2010
WSJ – Gathering for Gardner
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Homage to the iconic author of Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" column
Last Saturday afternoon, on a Japanese-landscaped hillside at the outskirts of Atlanta, several clusters of people were constructing mathematically inspired sculptures of metal, bamboo and balloons. Nearby, a magician showed a mathematician how to "throw" a knot. Others had their photographs taken in an optical illusion they had built, an "impossible box" that from one perspective made people look simultaneously behind and inside it. Around a goldfish pond, groups did puzzles, origami, juggling and card tricks. A magician, a philosopher and a software engineer argued about Wittgenstein. Read more…
Dangerous Knowledge
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Shaking Up Foundations of Math: Roger Penrose on Kurt Gödel’s Groundbreaking Work
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Best known for his Incompleteness Theorem, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) is considered one of the most important mathematicians and logicians of the 20th century. By showing that the establishment of a set of axioms encompassing all of mathematics would never succeed, he revolutionized the world of mathematics, logic and philosophy. Read more…
Alan Turing, the man who taught computers to think
Monday, July 5th, 2010WSJ – Gathering for Gardner
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Homage to the iconic author of Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" column
Last Saturday afternoon, on a Japanese-landscaped hillside at the outskirts of Atlanta, several clusters of people were constructing mathematically inspired sculptures of metal, bamboo and balloons. Nearby, a magician showed a mathematician how to "throw" a knot. Others had their photographs taken in an optical illusion they had built, an "impossible box" that from one perspective made people look simultaneously behind and inside it. Around a goldfish pond, groups did puzzles, origami, juggling and card tricks. A magician, a philosopher and a software engineer argued about Wittgenstein. Read more…
Dangerous Knowledge
Monday, January 25th, 2010Shaking Up Foundations of Math: Roger Penrose on Kurt Gödel’s Groundbreaking Work
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009Best known for his Incompleteness Theorem, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) is considered one of the most important mathematicians and logicians of the 20th century. By showing that the establishment of a set of axioms encompassing all of mathematics would never succeed, he revolutionized the world of mathematics, logic and philosophy. Read more…
