March 2010
“Mathematics is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure....”
– Paul Halmos (via scienceisbeauty)
“Several years ago, before pi-day was famous, a student called the phone number...”
– Phone Pi | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine
Why String Theorists Should Switch Fields to Quantum Computing
via Woit
“Better yet, a grand statement called The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra says...”
– Strogatz on complex numbers (NYT)
“There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via quantumpossibility)
Watchricordidimenticati:
Questa è un’autentica perla.
Correva l’anno 1921 quando ad Alber Einstein diedero il nobel e due anni dopo produssero questo cortometraggio per rendere accessibile l’idea che sta dietro alla teoria della relatività, il tutto con un accompagnamento musicale veramente armonico.
“To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real...”
– Richard Feynman (via scienceisbeauty) 