Tag: mathematicians
Intelligent Design in Imaginary Numbers
René Descartes, in 1637, is credited with being the first to assign this label to results involving the square root of a negative number.
Science for Insight or Science for Power?
What are the core purposes of science and math? Evaluating the idea of “knowledge as power” in the computer age.
Ovid in His Exile
Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia University was the scene of many strange experiments.
“Would Mathematics Be Here if We Weren’t?”
In December, physicist and author Lawrence Krauss interviewed the late American novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13th at the age of 89.
Shades of Titanic — Probing the Wreck of the Unsinkable Enlightenment
Science and reason were supposed to transform the world for the good instead of soaking it in gore.