Einstein’s Defeat – Quantum Entanglement

For the first time, Einstein was in a war that pushed the limits, and he would die before he could see the result of the war: Quantum… | Continue reading


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Einstein’s Defeat – Quantum Entanglement

For the first time, Einstein was in a war that pushed the limits, and he would die before he could see the result of the war: Quantum… | Continue reading


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Why You Should Still Switch Envelopes

Refuting critique on my position | Continue reading


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Does Popper’s Falsification Principle Itself Need to Be Falsifiable?

The logic of homological and heterological statements  — as they relate to Popper’s Falsification Principle. | Continue reading


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String Theory: A promising theory of everything or a failed scientific attempt

A promising theory of everything or a failed scientific attempt | Continue reading


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The Insane Study Routine of Sir Isaac Newton

“He worked seven days a week, 18 hours a day, and he pushed himself.” | Continue reading


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The Pigeonhole Principle

The quintessential counting argument | Continue reading


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A Gentle Intro to Chaos Theory

Why the Butterfly Effect is not the whole story | Continue reading


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Does Popper’s Falsification Principle Itself Need to Be Falsifiable?

The logic of homological and heterological statements  — as they relate to Popper’s Falsification Principle. | Continue reading


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Hunting Squares – The Lehmer Factoring Engines

The Lehmer Factoring Engines | Continue reading


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It Took Me 10 Years to Understand Entropy, Here Is What I Learned

From the Big bang to the Heat death of the universe | Continue reading


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Hilbert’s Hotel – An Ingenious Explanation of Infinity

What is ∞ - 1? And why? | Continue reading


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Getting Started with Random Matrices: A Step-by-Step Guide

In the Deep Learning (DL) age, more and more people have encountered and used (knowingly or not) random matrices. Most of the time this… | Continue reading


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These Books Will Make You Fall In Love With Mathematics

From Geometry To Number Theory | Continue reading


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Eric Weinstein’s Sour Grapes

“We are now gods, but for the wisdom.” | Continue reading


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Eric Weinstein: How Not to Formulate a Theory of Everything

“A quick look over the GU document already reveals its glaring deficiencies as a piece of scientific work” | Continue reading


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Learn Anything Faster by Using the Feynman Technique

Richard Feynman is considered to be one of the most miraculous personalities in scientific history. The 1965 Nobel prize winner on QED… | Continue reading


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Dijkstra’s Most Powerful Lessons

“On our inability to do much” | Continue reading


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Why maths is an art not a science

Mathematics is usually classed with the sciences, both in official catalogs and in the popular imagination. People who are good at science… | Continue reading


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Dijkstra’s Most Powerful Lessons

“On our inability to do much” | Continue reading


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Dijkstra’s Most Powerful Lessons

“On our inability to do much” | Continue reading


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Dijkstra’s Most Powerful Lessons

“On our inability to do much” | Continue reading


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Dijkstra’s Most Powerful Lessons

“On our inability to do much” | Continue reading


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When Alan Turing and Ludwig Wittgenstein Discussed the Liar Paradox

Alan Turing attended Ludwig Wittgenstein’s ‘Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics’ in Cambridge in 1939. The following is one account… | Continue reading


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Richard Feynman on Artificial General Intelligence

In a lecture held by physicist Richard Feynman (1918–1988) on September 26th, 1985, the question of artificial general intelligence (also… | Continue reading


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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Is Pure Mathematics

You might want to sit down for this | Continue reading


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The Visualization of Primes and Its Potential Significance

The Visualization of Primes & Its Potential Significance | Continue reading


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Richard Feynman’s Integral Trick

An obscure but powerful integration technique most commonly known as differentiation under the integral sign, or as "Feynman's Technique". | Continue reading


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The Mozart of Mathematics, Niels Henrik Abel

“Although Abel shared with many mathematicians a complete lack of musical talent, I will not sound absurd if I compare his kind of… | Continue reading


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Einstein’s 1905 paper on the Photoelectric Effect

The paper that earned Einstein the Nobel Prize | Continue reading


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How to Calculate the Day of the Week

In less than 30 minutes, learn how to calculate which weekday any given date occurs on | Continue reading


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The Math Problems from Good Will Hunting, with Solutions

How do you like them apples? | Continue reading


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The Mathematics of Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber)

“Showed amazing potential” | Continue reading


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The Duties of John von Neumann’s Assistant in the 1930s

“What, I asked, are the duties of an assistant to Professor von Neumann?” | Continue reading


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Kurt Gödel’s Brilliant Madness

“Modern math’s absolute Prince of Darkness” — David Foster Wallace | Continue reading


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The Birthplace of AI: The 1956 Dartmouth Workshop

An essay about the 1956 “Dartmouth workshop” | Continue reading


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The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős

“The Man Who Loved Only Numbers” | Continue reading


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When Feynman met Dirac (2020)

“I am Feynman. I am Dirac. (Silence)” | Continue reading


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The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann

“Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann proves what he wants” | Continue reading


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Why Probability Theory is Hard. It’s not because you’re stupid or

It’s not because you’re stupid or weren’t concentrating in school | Continue reading


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Kurt Gödel's Brilliant Madness

“Modern math’s absolute Prince of Darkness” — David Foster Wallace | Continue reading


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