Ariel Swartley is a contributing writer and book critic for Los Angeles magazine. THE wild-eyed mad scientist has been a staple of popular imagination since the early 19th century, when Mary Shelley ...
I greatly enjoyed Palle Yourgrau’s essay (“Gödel and Einstein: Friendship and Relativity,” The Chronicle Review, December 17). This otherwise excellent piece contains one dubious assertion, however: ...
THIS collection of essays, written between 1970 and 2007, provides a window into one of the most interesting minds in maths. Aged 15, Gregory Chaitin defined the complexity of a number as the length ...
"All Cretans are liars", said Epimenides, a Cretan. But this means that his statement must be a lie too. But then it is false that Cretans are liars and the statement must be true. So what now?
The movie “The Imitation Game” has revived deserved interest in Alan Turing, the eccentric genius of Bletchley Park who helped create the marvelous machine that broke Nazi codes and hastened the end ...
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The movie “The Imitation Game” has revived deserved interest in Alan Turing, the eccentric genius of Bletchley Park who helped create the marvelous machine that broke Nazi codes and hastened the end ...
It was against this backdrop that David Hilbert, the most prominent mathematician of the age, created a program to get things back on track. Unfortunately, just the opposite happened. First came Kurt ...
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