Math
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Sofia Kovalevskaya: Love Makes All the Partial Difference
Everybody needs love, but for some the striving after it so dominates their every action and decision that it becomes…
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Mary Somerville: Savior of British Mathematics.
In the 1750s, when France was foundering scientifically in the Cartesian shallows, it took Emilie du Châtelet’s French translation of…
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Lab Track: Lateralus
Today’s lab track is math rock! I was hipped to this track over the weekend, which is kind of shameful,…
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Emmy Noether Solves the Universe.
“Momentum is always conserved, except when it isn’t.” In high school physics, we learn all manner of conservation laws, one…
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Math Girls: A Manga on how to be a Trig Rock Star and Still Survive High School
“Open any math book and you’ll find a ton of equations. Each one is an expression of someone’s thoughts. There’s…
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Sex, Cards, and Calculus: The Life of Émilie du Châtelet
In popular mythology, the 1687 publication of Newton’s Principia was the culminating moment when one human told the world how…
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Creative Dissonance Episode 7 – Ceiliculus
The long winter is over and we’re celebrating spring in the traditional way: with Irish dancing and higher order mathematics.…
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Turning Rhythm into Tone
Though we all know that our senses don’t see the world as it is — what we perceive as an…
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