“If you want to live a long life, keep a little aged wine and an old friend,” Pythagoras advised as a way to achieve the longevity so many desire and that, unfortunately, seems within reach of only a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. André Weil (left, in 1956) and Simone Weil (in 1922) were siblings who became prominent in mathematics and philosophy, ...
A mathematician and a philosopher at the University of California, Davis, have been awarded prestigious 2001 Guggenheim Fellowships. One will spend the next year developing a new theory of control ...
Prof. Emeritus William Walker Tait, an acclaimed philosopher and mathematician at the University of Chicago, died March 15 in Naperville, Ill. He was 95. Known by colleagues as one of the most ...
SCREF copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, ...
MOST of us make use of mathematical ideas and processes to some extent, and many of us have wondered from time to time what these ideas and processes really were. What is the meaning of function, ...
THE HISTORY Of computers is often told as a history of objects, from the abacus to the Babbage engine up through the code-breaking machines of World War II. In fact, it is better understood as a ...
NEW YORK — Émilie du Châtelet led an extraordinary life. An 18th-century physicist, mathematician and philosopher, she took famed writers — including Voltaire — as lovers. As she worked on her final ...
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