| 单词 | mathematician |
| 例句 | In England he may well have met Thomas Harriot, a great mathematician who was evidently attracted to atomism, and Gilbert too. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It’s in progress,” said the mathematician, without interest. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Though mathematicians of the day sniped at Berkeley’s logic, the good bishop was entirely correct. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To satisfy them, Archimedes also included a proof, based upon the accepted mathematics of the time, that relied upon the so-called axiom of Archimedes, although Archimedes himself mentioned that earlier mathematicians deserved the credit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Because of the overwhelmingly white public face of the space program, the black engineers, scientists, and mathematicians who were deeply involved with the space race nevertheless lived in its shadows, even within the black community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Indian mathematicians did more than simply accept zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Pope John died, and in the ensuing power shift all the philosophers and mathematicians like Dionysius were kicked out of office. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This is a singularity, a concept that became very important later in the history of science—but at this early stage, mathematicians knew little more than the artists about the properties of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And even though I never opened my mouth, I say, Thanks, becauseMissing I am not a mathematician— a + b seldom equals c. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z He also had his duties as district mathematician, and he soon remarried, a young woman of 24 who bore him six children, three of whom died in infancy. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z What is the relationship between the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, between the mathematicians’ revolution and the mechanical revolution? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was through this invasion that Indian mathematicians first learned about the Babylonian system of numbers—and about zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Another source of income for mathematicians in Galileo’s day was teaching the geometrical principles of perspective representation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thanks in part to a young mathematician named Alan Turing, they came up with new ways to tackle Enigma, including much more powerful decoding machines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Sometime around the fifth century AD, Indian mathematicians changed their style of numbering; they moved from a Greek-like system to a Babylonian-style one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Some, like Dorothy Vaughan and Dorothy Hoover, made the grade as mathematicians from day one; others earned the designation over time. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Anicius Boethius was a powerful courtier who was among the finest medieval Western mathematicians, which makes him worth noting. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, as Indian mathematicians had made quite clear, zero was the embodiment of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This one was William Cavendish, seventh Duke of Devonshire, who was a gifted mathematician and steel baron in Victorian England. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As early as the sixteenth century, mathematicians were using numbers with i included—the so-called complex numbers—to solve cubic and quartic polynomials. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Of all the black employees working in research at Langley in the early 1960s, there were still only five categorized as engineers and sixteen with the title of mathematician. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Another problem blew up out of Kepler’s eagerness to consolidate his new reputation by associating with other mathematicians and discussing his ideas with them. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z On the last day in Advanced Algebra, Mrs. Verne told us that we had made great progress and that we were far in advance of most eighth-grade mathematicians in the state of New York. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Piero, who was a mathematician as well as a painter, demonstrates his total command of perspectivist illusion and uses the vanishing point to convey God’s incomprehensibility. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One argument mathematicians cite for not writing for a larger audience is the esoteric nature of their work. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The episode earned Mary a reputation as a smart mathematician who might be able to contribute more than just calculations to her new group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I even did the 1 created by a mathematician from Finland. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Belabra, the mathematician, requested an office with high walls he might write his formulas upon and whitewash over as he saw fit. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z You needn’t be a mathematician to realize that there’s something wrong statistically if most people do this. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1567 the great Protestant logician and mathematician Petrus Ramus referred to ‘the laws of Ptolemy’ and ‘the laws of Euclid’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z English mathematicians fell far behind their Continental counterparts when it came to developing calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A basic description of the Scientific Revolution is to say that it represented a successful rebellion by the mathematicians against the authority of the philosophers, and of both against the authority of the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotle simply declared that mathematicians “do not need the infinite, or use it.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “He is the greatest living mathematician, the greatest,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Never before or since has Holland been graced by such a galaxy of artists and scientists, philosophers and mathematicians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, mathematicians started analyzing and classifying the points where a function blows up: singularities. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Scientific Revolution started as a revolution of the mathematicians; it would eventually turn into a revolution of the mechanics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Tycho himself was a flamboyant figure, festooned with a golden nose, the original having been lost in a student duel fought over who was the superior mathematician. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Eril-Fane was bidding the queen farewell, and the mathematician and natural philosopher were with them, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z How many irate mathematicians are needed to get you to change your mind? The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Studying data on human structural limits compiled by Finnish mathematicians, famed track coach Brutus Hamilton penned an article for Amateur Athlete magazine stating that a four-minute mile was impossible. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The mathematician’s hand went to his sleek hair in the familiar smoothing gesture. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It was to become the center of learning in the Eastern world—and one of its first scholars was the mathematician Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khowarizmi. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Making and remaking the common culture that bound together clergymen, mathematicians, instrument makers and aristocrats such as James Brydges, Duke of Chandos, and George Parker, second Earl of Macclesfield, required constant effort. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A provincial schoolteacher of humble origins, unknown to all but a few mathematicians, Kepler was diffident about Tycho’s offer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The mathematicians followed Archimedes; the philosophers followed Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The most important property of a line is its slope, and to measure this, mathematicians look at how high a line rises in a certain amount of distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The subject had been discussed by brilliant philosophers and mathematicians for 2,000 years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But Brahe and Ursus did not invent the priority dispute; rather, they cared about priority because mathematicians had been taking it seriously since at least 1520. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The new science of fortification was taught by mathematicians, Galileo among them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The female mathematicians’ job security wasn’t immediately threatened by the machines, but Dorothy Vaughan perceived that mastering the machine would be the key to long-term career stability. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They were: a mathematician, a natural philosopher, and, to no one’s surprise, the alchemist, Thyon Nero. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Yet as weird as these singularities behave, they were no longer mysterious to mathematicians, who were learning to dissect the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When Newton denoted position with the variable x, he realized that velocity is simply the fluxion—what modern mathematicians call the derivative—of x: x. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Regiomontanus’s praise of the mathematical sciences did not, however, imply uncritical admiration for contemporary mathematicians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z However, once the West embraced zero, mathematicians began to tame the infinite and ended Achilles’ race. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They had a variety of professional commitments, but they regarded themselves as first and foremost mathematicians, and many of them made major contributions to pure mathematics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Above all, Boyle, like any seventeenth-century scientist, realizes that most of his readers will be mathematicians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Triangles and circles were easy to measure, but slightly more irregular curves like the parabola were beyond the ken of the Greek mathematicians of the day. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There the young man—better known as Fibonacci—learned mathematics from the Muslims and soon became a good mathematician in his own right. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Owen had held his hand up and told him a joke about an engineer and a pure mathematician. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There were known to be five regular or “platonic” solids, whose sides were regular polygons, as known to the ancient Greek mathematicians after the time of Pythagoras. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus there were plenty of mathematicians who saw the new philosophy as falling within their area of professional expertise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Just as Indian mathematicians accepted zero while Europeans rejected it for centuries, the East embraced negative numbers while the West tried to ignore them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z How could he explain that it had fit his mind as nothing else ever had, like numbers to a mathematician, or air to a flute? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Even though mathematicians knew that calculus was deeply flawed—thanks to the mathematics of zero and infinity—they quickly embraced the new mathematical tools. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To the mathematicians of the time, this was a ridiculous concept. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This was the beginning of the discipline of projective geometry, where mathematicians look at the shadows and projections of geometric figures to uncover hidden truths even more powerful than the equivalence of parabolas and ellipses. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “My dear, Mr. Bowditch is a mathematician, not a—Well, he’d hardly be interested in your legends.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z For seven years after that she ruled the most unlikely of realms: a room full of black female mathematicians, doing research at the worlds most prestigious aeronautical laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The ancients didn’t have the equipment to deal with the infinite, but modern mathematicians have learned to handle it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As the days of World War II receded into memory, so did the notion that riveters and gas station attendants and munitions experts and, yes, even mathematicians would, or even should, be female. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He was educated at the University of Oxford and became well known as a mathematician and surveyor. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The German mathematician David Hilbert would say, “No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And yet, away from public view, one of the largest concentrations of professional female mathematicians in the United States stayed on the job, their identities wedded to their professions. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Sometime between 1534 and 1549 Jean Taisnier, a musician and mathematician, remarked that Aristotle was sometimes mistaken; he was challenged by a representative of the pope to produce a convincing example of Aristotle being wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To figure out the volume of a barrel or the area under a parabola, mathematicians added infinite zeros together; to find out the tangent of a curve, they divided zero by itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Vincenzio refused, on the seemingly reasonable grounds that there were plenty of jobs for doctors but very few for mathematicians. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z L’Hôpital bought himself the best teacher that money could buy: Johann Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician and one of the early masters of Leibniz’s calculus of infinitesimals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Scientific Revolution was, first and foremost, a revolt by the mathematicians against the authority of the philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It would be many years before mathematicians began to free calculus from its mystical underpinnings, for the mathematical world was busy fighting over who invented calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The quadratic formula has been known for centuries; the ninth-century mathematician al-Khowarizmi knew how to solve almost every quadratic equation, though he didn’t seem to consider negative numbers as roots. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “People I knew well began to vanish, one after the other,” Stanislaw Ulam, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, recalled. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As the mathematicians turned their attention from observation to experiment, from astronomy to physics, they found they required a new set of intellectual tools, a new language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Indeed, as a natural scientist and a mathematician, the mature Eratosthenes represented the anti-Ariston. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Research mathematicians attack their problems with an intensity and compulsiveness which seem related to the purity of their research. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With Leibniz’s calculus, these dys and dxs can be manipulated just like ordinary numbers, which is why modern mathematicians and physicists usually use Leibniz’s notation rather than Newton’s. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like musicians, like mathematicians—like elite athletes—scientists peak early and dwindle fast. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Once in California, Mary had met a mathematician who spent every weekend climbing among the trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Neither left fingerprints on Langleys decision to hire black women mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Modern mathematicians know that the terms have a limit; the numbers 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and so forth are approaching zero as their limit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Such a point is an example of what mathematicians call a singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like any other scientists, mathematicians are motivated by a complex of emotions including healthy doses of jealousy, arrogance, and competitiveness. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He had thought he might end up as biologist or a mathematician. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The mathematicians, however, interpreted the apparently irregular movement of the planets in the heavens as evidence that some invisible reality was causing the movement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One of the more successful attempts–commercially at least–was The ABC of Relativity by the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This fine instrument must have belonged to a mathematician who, unless on a journey, would have used it primarily to tell the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Despite calculus’s shaky foundations, by the end of the eighteenth century, mathematicians all over Europe were having stunning successes with the new tool. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was a specimen impaled on a pin, ready for study, and mathematicians were quick to analyze it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Yet the ancient Egyptians were quite sophisticated mathematicians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The curve 1/x has a singularity at the point x = 0—a very simple sort of singularity that mathematicians dubbed a pole. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You mathematician! I wish you could at least pay a compliment without arithmetic! Eight from nineteen is eleven. Twice as pretty every year...Goodness, I’m twenty-two times as pretty!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, Germany was also the land of Leopold Kronecker, the mathematician who would hound Cantor into a mental institution. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Working as a research mathematician at Langley was a very, very good black job—and it was also a very, very good female job. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z First cartographers, then mathematicians, then anatomists, and then astronomers began to play the game, which was inherently competitive and immediately gave rise to priority disputes and, more slowly, to eponymic naming. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the 1930s, just over a hundred women in the United States worked as professional mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Given the relatively low salaries of many mathematicians, both failings might be overcome if multimillionaires supported mathematicians who wrote for a popular audience. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z An astronomer, a physicist, and a mathematician set off for Scotland on the train. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “What all are you going to do in this world, my little mathematician?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z And the mathematician says, “No. There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Colin Maclaurin and Brook Taylor, perhaps the best British mathematicians in the era of isolation from the Continent, discovered how to use calculus to rewrite functions in a totally different form. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Nothing guarantees that mathematicians will be interested in taking this further step. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over from mathematics to physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the old days, before Riemann saw that the complex plane was really a sphere, functions like 1/x would stump mathematicians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Some historians and mathematicians argue that the Parthenon, the majestic Athenian temple, was built so that the golden ratio is visible in every aspect of its construction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And it is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For seven months Dorothy Vaughan had apprenticed as a mathematician, growing more confident with the concepts, the numbers, and the people at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Zeno’s riddles plagued mathematicians for nearly two thousand years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The mathematician said that it was senseless to try because in theory you would never reach her, but the engineer smiled and said, “You can get close enough.” The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Egyptian mathematics was famed throughout the Mediterranean, and it is likely that the early Greek mathematicians, masters of geometry like Thales and Pythagoras, studied in Egypt. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Brahmagupta, an Indian mathematician of the seventh century, gave rules for dividing numbers by each other, and he included the negatives. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And, naturally, the crucial topics for the new science corresponded neatly with the professional preoccupations of seventeenth-century mathematicians: astronomy/astrology, navigation, cartography, surveying, architecture, ballistics and hydraulics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Plato had a mathematician’s sensibility—his investigations into reality took place in the mind alone. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A Jesuit mathematician did the geometry calculations to determine the distance to a stockpile of gunpowder the Dutch had brought ashore and the angle of elevation at which the cannon should be set. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Another of his books, about painting, warns, “Let no one who is not a mathematician read my works.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the 1970s, Goldman got involved with a group of mathematicians who were very interested in developing statistical rules for telling apart things like subatomic particles. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In the case of the great mathematician Roberval the result was a pathological conviction that other people were stealing his ideas. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Getting hired by the laboratory as a professional mathematician had been an important and groundbreaking stride for the black women— for all of Langley’s women, of course. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Greeks understood mathematics better than the Egyptians did; once they mastered the Egyptian art of geometry, Greek mathematicians quickly surpassed their teachers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z You won’t find Copernicus, or Kepler, or Galileo praising moderation, impartiality, industry; but then Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo are primarily mathematicians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I know what that means when a mathematician says it. How near the end are you?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z He was an astronomer, historian, geographer, philosopher, poet, theater critic and mathematician. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Calculating the pressure distribution over a particular airfoil at a transonic speed could easily take a month to complete for the most experienced of mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z This is the tangent, and mathematicians realized that it is extremely important in studying motion. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Eventually, one ancient Greek surpassed Zeno in matters of the infinite: Archimedes, the eccentric mathematician of Syracuse. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was the engineer who determined what problems to investigate, designed the experiments, and defined the assignments for the mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Of the letters she got about the problem, 92% said that she was wrong and lots of these were from mathematicians and scientists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “A mathematician? Then here’s an interesting problem for you, Mr. Bowditch. Five years ago, I inherited some money in Ireland.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, sure. He’s a great mathematician. And a logician, too.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Zero is not the only number that was rejected by mathematicians for centuries. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In a curious way, many people simultaneously exalt and dismiss mathematicians and scientists as impractical whizzes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was while he was at the Military School at Breda that Descartes met the mathematician Isaac Beeckman, of Dordrecht, who introduced him to higher aspects of mathematics and became a long-term friend. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Pascal was a mathematician as well as a scientist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Most mathematicians—Galileo, Pascal, Descartes, Newton—were familiar with the word’s use in technical astronomy, and tended to avoid it in other contexts. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The philosophers weren’t convinced and continued as before, and the mathematicians weren’t impressed—this wasn’t maths as they understood it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He wrote a letter to the then Imperial Mathematician, Reimarus Ursus, seeking his opinion on his own work, and sycophantically praising Ursus as the greatest mathematician of all time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The women mathematicians dominated their mechanical calculators the same way the test pilots dominated their mechanical planes. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But it took more than a century to make innovation—outside geography and cartography—respectable, and then it became respectable only among the mathematicians and anatomists, not among the philosophers and the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Euler was an excellent mathematician—in fact, he was one of the most prolific and influential in history—but in this case the careless manipulation of zero and infinity led him astray. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z By then Indian mathematicians had already made a giant leap. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The two promptly accused each other of plagiarism, and the English mathematical community, which backed Newton, pulled away from the Continental mathematicians, who supported Leibniz. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It satisfies the mathematician's strict requirement of logical rigor. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “This fraction of which the denominator is a cipher, is termed an infinite quantity,” writes Bhaskara, a twelfth-century Indian mathematician, who tells of what happens when you add a number to 1 + 0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps more striking than the racial integration of the female mathematicians, which had been spreading organically throughout Langley for years, was the fact that a group focused on computing now employed increasing numbers of men. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In rhetoric, we’re far closer to the astronomer than the mathematician. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But if the Revolution begun by the mathematicians was to be successful it needed to identify other ways of establishing and communicating universal truths. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Geography had been remade at the beginning of the sixteenth century by mariners; the philosophy of nature was remade in the seventeenth by the ‘mathematicians and engineers’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bletchley Park, the U.K.’s secret code-breaking center, was staffed with hundreds of mathematicians, linguists, and professors, and it had dedicated units that could solve Abwehr Enigma with pencil and paper alone. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “You are a good mathematician. Now we will see what you know about more important things.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z These similarities were obvious since the Renaissance, but mathematicians had to wait until the end of the French Revolution before they finally unraveled zero's big secret. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z University of Florida I am in shock that after being corrected by at least three mathematicians, you still do not see your mistake. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z However, any mathematician of the day would have scoffed at this line of reasoning; Archimedes used the tools of the infinite, which were so expressly disallowed by his mathematical colleagues. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Instead of dividing by zero as Newton and Leibniz did, modern mathematicians divide by a number that they let approach zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And as physicists and mathematicians all over the world were beginning to use calculus to explain nature, cries of protest emanated from the church. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He came under the influence of a Maskil in Odessa and went away to France where he became a great mathematician and taught in a university. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It was no longer a complete mystery; mathematicians could extract some information about 0/0 if they approached it very carefully. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The quandary deepened in mid-1950, when it became evident that the solution to a vexing technical issue in hydrogen bomb design rested on the collaborative work of Teller and the Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Every engineer and mathematician had a story of double-checking the machines’ data only to find errors. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The mathematicians began to handle evidence in the way that lawyers and theologians had been handling it for many centuries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To find the mass of the mountain from all these numbers required a great deal of tedious calculating, for which a mathematician named Charles Hutton was engaged. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She had already sent him a link to a biography of Leonhard Euler, an eighteenth-century Swiss mathematician. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Right now, she was a mathematician, an American citizen whose greatest talents had been recognized, and who was about to offer those talents in the service of her country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He would not have gone if the conference was not focused on the work of his mentor, the black American mathematician David Blackwell. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z What use is it to him now that he was such a good mathematician at school. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z On one side of a room was a beautiful woman, on the other side the engineer and the mathematician. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z No one did, and the guest, who wasn’t a mathematician, said something incomprehensible in his defense. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seek simplicity, but distrust it,” Alfred North Whitehead, the mathematician and philosopher, once advised his students. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In fact, in the fifteenth century, artists were amateur mathematicians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Give it 1 year and really make a go of it. Make 1 friend. Do 1 thing outside of these walls. Read 1 book not written by an economist or a mathematician.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The Indian mathematician Bhaskara wrote in the twelfth century that “there is no square root of a negative number, for a negative number is not a square.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The views of the philosophers and mathematicians, although they were sharply at odds with each other, corresponded satisfactorily to daily experience, or at least so they believed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At the time the mathematical community rejected Bernoulli’s claims; not only had l’Hôpital proved himself an able mathematician, but Johann Bernoulli had a tarnished reputation. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As a talented, possibly gifted mathematician with a similarly independent mind, Dorothy Hoover was a perfect fit for the section, and in 1946 R. T. Jones invited her to work directly for him. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As has been said about many subjects, mathematics is too important to be left to the mathematicians. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Physics, of course, meant math, and math meant mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Each and every one of these changes weakened the position of the philosophers and strengthened the position of the mathematicians, who, unlike the philosophers, welcomed new information. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had previously tried to claim credit for another mathematician's proof. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To learn this, mathematicians had to venture into the world of the imaginary, a bizarre world where circles are lines, lines are circles, and infinity and zero sit on opposite poles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You mathematician! I wish you could at least pay compliments without arithmetic!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z In the mid-1950s, a woman named Helen Willey led a successful charge to have every female computer with a math degree upgraded to mathematician, a title that automatically applied to men with the same credential. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Just as the astrolabe embodies the medieval application of mathematics to the heavens, the sector embodies the new technical skills of the mathematician applying himself to the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A Frenchman, not an Englishman, would be remembered for taking the first nibble at the mysterious zeros and infinities that suffused calculus; mathematicians learn of l’Hôpital’s rule when they first learn about calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Though a few mathematicians, like Blaise Pascal, picked up on Desargues’s work, it was forgotten. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Other Western mathematicians didn’t change the word so heavily and called zero cifra, which became cipher. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Already in the seventeenth century the mathematicians’ revolution was becoming indistinguishable from a mechanical revolution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For years mathematicians struggled to determine whether C was indeed א. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Anxious to get out of Prague before everything fell apart politically, Kepler travelled to Linz, where he applied for a job as district mathematician and was accepted in June. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z As Kuhn states it, this argument, which sets the experimentalists against the mathematicians, seems wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Because ratios were the keys to understanding nature, the Pythagoreans and later Greek mathematicians spent much of their energy investigating their properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z After none of the machines adequately cooled the room, one of Garfield's doctors contacted Professor Simon Newcomb, a scientist and mathematician who worked for the U. S. Navy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He was an astronomer and mathematician and studied the evolution of the solar system. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Expertise in a subfield was the key to a successful career as an engineer, and expertise was becoming a necessity for the mathematicians and computers as well. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, no ancient Greek struck a medal with the word Eureka on it and started awarding it to successful scientists as we award the Fields Medal to successful mathematicians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The last scientist who worked in the Library was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist and the head of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy—an extraordinary range of accomplishments for any individual in any age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s so much more important for them to run around the school dropping off messages than be challenged to learn what great mathematicians have wrestled with for a thousand years.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z From these fragments, researchers discovered that Stone Age mathematicians were a bit more rugged than modern ones. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Once numbers shed their geometric significance, mathematicians no longer had to worry about mathematical operations making geometric sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Pacioli is a mathematician; the person who painted him was surely also a mathematician, as demonstrated by his understanding of complex mathematical shapes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The finest mathematicians were entirely satisfied with Archimedes’ principle, which seemed to them both coherent and complete. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And while many mathematicians saw the complex numbers as a convenient fiction, others saw God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “My father wants me to be a mathematician, though.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The mathematician G. H. Hardy was visiting his protege, the Indian mathematician Ramanujan, in the hospital. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The existence of this romantic tendency constitutes at least a small part of the emotional makeup of most mathematicians, and is perhaps surprising to those who think of mathematicians as cold rationalists. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And since the middle of the last decade, mathematicians had meant women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She knocked off a master’s degree in mathematics from Atlanta University, and then taught school in Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee before coming to Langley in 1943, where she was hired as a P-l mathematician. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Every time mathematicians tried to deal with the infinite or with zero, they encountered trouble with illogic. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Not long afterward, Joyce went to a twenty-first-birthday party for a young English mathematician named Graham. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Nowadays the great unsolved problems in mathematics are stated in terms of conjectures that mathematicians are unable to prove. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For instance, if a black hole is spinning or has an electric charge, mathematicians have calculated that the singularity is not a point—a pinpoint hole in space-time—but a ring. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z SUN Inspiring mathematical activities for fourth- to 12th-grade students, led by mathematicians, teachers, and volunteers, 1 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-04-24T23:00:53Z One solution turns up in an old biography of Kovalevskaya that describes the mathematician as having “a peculiar mix of childish naïveté and great depth of thought.” Women Seeking Intimacy Through Food, Mathematics and Rhythm 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z The list of past subject areas includes surrealism, the Harlem Renaissance, the art of persuasion, the Civil War and Italian mathematician Fibonacci. With interactive conferences, Smithsonian museum shares its collection with military-connected students around the world 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The chorus sings texts by the Dutch mathematician M. H. J. Schoenmaekers about the purity of a straight line. Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z It depicted key elements in the life of the French mathematician and philosopher, including a Pascaline calculator and a prie-dieu prayer desk. Cultured Traveler: In Paris, Where Artisanship Becomes Art 2012-10-12T20:04:36Z In "The Imitation Game," Turing is the brilliant mathematician who breaks the Germans' Enigma code, helping to bring the war to an end and save millions of lives. Working with Cumberbatch, co-stars get challenged and 'batched' 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z After all, he says, the mathematician Hannah Fry found that the most successful couples have a “low negativity threshold”, meaning they argue often but easily move on. All you need is maths? The man using equations to find love 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z “The Imitation Game,” and Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance as Alan Turing, the British mathematician who broke the Enigma code, has transmitted the allure of cryptography to millions of moviegoers. ‘Decoding the Renaissance,’ at the Folger Shakespeare 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z He was trained as a mathematician, but unlike more doctrinaire economists, he viewed markets as social phenomena. John Maynard Keynes Died in 1946. An Outstanding New Biography Shows Him Relevant Still. 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z “A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns,” he wrote. | 'A Disappearing Number': Simon McBurney?s Play at Lincoln Center Festival 2010-07-16T22:29:00Z Both Bach and Boulez are mathematicians at work. A Flutist Steps Into the Solo Spotlight 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Among them are works by Christopher Clavius, the famed German mathematician and friend of Galileo who was Ricci’s teacher at the Roman College. Missionary to the Forbidden City 2010-09-27T12:02:00Z At the conference, Nachman is goaded by a strange, devilish Russian mathematician named Nikolai Chertoff, an interaction which, Curtis says, brings the story into the Faustian realm of temptation and bargaining. Fiction Podcast: Rebecca Curtis Reads Leonard Michaels 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Indeed, she refers to herself as both an artist and a mathematician. Dorothea Rockburne’s Ephemeral Art and Enduring Legacy 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z Finally, Doerr is reading physicist and mathematician Brian Greene’s “Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe” — another book best taken in small doses. Great reads for the armchair traveler 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until the 1990s that Andrew Wiles, a British mathematician at Princeton University, finally unlocked the mystery. Amir D. Aczel, author of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and other best sellers, dies 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Where Simon is different from other middle-aged mathematicians is that he doesn't mope over his lost youth. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Maybe comedy will be the next art form to reach the point where scientific scrutiny trumps instinct – that moment when code-breaking ceased to be the domain of crossword fiends and passed over to the mathematicians. Can an equation find out whether a subject is suitable for risk-free levity? 2012-07-28T23:06:06Z “I strongly endorse the idea of going beyond the verbal art forms traditionally marked as ‘literature,’” says the mathematician, whose new book is “Shape.” Jordan Ellenberg Wouldn’t Have Given the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z In July, his work in geometric combinatorics won him the Fields Medal, given every four years to mathematicians younger than 40 and known as the “Nobel Prize in Mathematics.” Meet the new MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Trinity is the best college for providing genius mathematicians with a pleasant life. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Growing up in Hampton, Virginia, Margot Lee Shetterly was surrounded by brilliant female scientists and mathematicians who, like her father, worked for Nasa. How history forgot the black women behind Nasa’s space race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z In 1980, mathematicians discovered the largest symmetry: the most convoluted symmetrical atom of them all. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Chandler Davis, a renowned American-Canadian mathematician and writer, was one of three professors at the University of Michigan who was fired after their refusal to testify. Today’s Trumbo: Try telling academic critics of Israel McCarthyism is behind us 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z But Carroll, a mathematician by trade, wrote to a friend, in a letter included in the exhibition, asking for advice, and provided him helpfully with a tree diagram of name possibilities. Looking at the Birth of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice,’ 150 Years Old 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z If you read those lines and are tempted to argue with me about their statistical accuracy, let me remind you: I am not a mathematician; I’m a poet. Perspective | Lessons for my children about fears, real and imagined 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z “There are mathematicians that are brilliant at posing problems, and mathematicians that are brilliant at solving problems,” her Harvard adviser Curtis McMullen said. Math prize winner Maryam Mirzakhani once wanted to be a writer 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The plane then departed late with the mathematician, and the woman was rebooked on later flight. When ‘Suspicious’ Activity on Flights Really Isn’t 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z But in the 19th and 20th centuries, physicists and mathematicians started to think beyond Euclid and his regular universe. Beno?t B Mandelbrot: the man who made geometry an art 2010-10-19T12:12:00Z His discovery was quickly built upon by mathematicians around the world, who refined and extended his conclusions. Meet MacArthur's new 'genius grant' winners 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The mathematician who cheerfully insisted that his proof opened up space for human creativity had succumbed to the doomed visions of his own despair. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z But there are mathematicians who try to alter their brain chemistry a little more directly. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The same everywhere, these places, reserved for the exclusive use of lunk-headed boys, mathematicians and chemists mostly. Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan - extract 2012-08-10T21:55:10Z Berkowitz discovers that they are comedians and coders, actors and slam poets, mathematicians and “unattached English majors” for whom a bad pun “isn’t the party foul it might be elsewhere.” A great pun is its own reword 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Black and female, dozens had worked at the space agency as mathematicians, often under Jim Crow laws, calculating crucial trajectories for rockets while being segregated from their white counterparts. On Being Black Female Math Whizzes During the Space Race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Duffy’s fusion of Pop and Minimalism visually squares a circle, an insoluble problem proposed by ancient mathematicians. 'The Gildless Age': A different tale of the '1 percent' at the Torrance Art Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z A group whose rhythms and time signatures on first listen read like a precisely written algebraic equation overtaking a mathematician's chalkboard, Deerhoof has etched a singular line through its two decades as a band. Essential tracks: Deerhoof, an Elliott Smith tribute and Moon Duo 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Johnson, the celebrated mathematician who died last year at 101, charts her pioneering path to NASA. New & Noteworthy, From Bob Dylan to the Bay Area 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z This month, just under the wire for the critics-groups’ prizes, the Great Man Theory flourishes in two bio-pics about brilliant Cambridge mathematicians with phenomenal achievements despite physical or social impediments. The Theory of Everything review: My Left Brain 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z This helped open the door for black female mathematicians, who were recruited through job bulletin boards and newspaper ads. On Being Black Female Math Whizzes During the Space Race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Proof David Auburn’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning drama about a troubled young woman trying to cope with the death of her mathematician father. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 11-18: 'Time Stands Still' and more 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z He was mathematician, physicist, engineer, philosopher, musician and social and political activist, and he had a highly developed visual artistic sense. Peter Forbes: rereading Einstein's collected papers 2013-06-21T09:00:02Z So it was with awe that I read “My Remarkable Journey,” Katherine Johnson’s posthumously published memoir about her life as a Black female mathematician. Review | Katherine Johnson of ‘Hidden Figures’ tells her story in her own words 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Julia Kowalska, a Polish mathematician studying in the Netherlands for a Ph.D., said it was her ninth visit to the show, and the most relaxed. Up Late With Vermeer, as a Blockbuster Comes to an End 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z The unnamed bride explained that because both her and her fiance were mathematicians they planned to include multiple maths references throughout the event. Mathematician couple forces wedding party to answer math problems during dinner 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z In the Oscar-nominated movie "The Imitation Game," a group of young British mathematicians is tasked with cracking the German Engima machine, the cipher device that the Nazis used to encrypt and decrypt war communications. Enigma machine from World War II finds unlikely home in Beverly Hills 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z In my classes for the Wide Open School we're going to look at concepts of space as understood by mathematicians and physicists. Making space: where art meets physics 2012-06-13T17:07:50Z It’s about the first Indian mathematician to become a fellow at Cambridge University. Dev Patel: 'I Want to Be Very Selective in the Story I Go to India to Tell' 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Physicists and mathematicians, we may conclude, are as at sea with great literature as most of the rest of us would be with Anisotropy, Vortex Clusters and their Dynamics. Beowulf, Shakespeare and the plausibility of fiction 2012-07-25T17:04:25Z The story Zuckerman tells is about how Simons and the mathematicians and programmers he surrounded himself with found those variables. How to Beat the Market 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z And we’re not just talking about his next movie, The Imitation Game, in which he plays famous mathematician Alan Turing. Benedict Cumberbatch's Imitation Game 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Imitation Game’s hero, brilliant mathematician Alan Turing, is also a reluctant hero, as in the American tradition. Stiff upper lip or man on the edge? How movies see real-life heroes 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In fact it was Somerville who first introduced Lovelace to the mathematician Charles Babbage, a meeting that resulted in the world’s first computer. Maria Popova Weaves Together Stories of Human Ingenuity 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Cumberbatch plays Turing, a computer pioneer and mathematician who worked at Bletchley Park, attempting to decipher German messages to help end World War Two. Cumberbatch: 'Turing was a hero' 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z It proved difficult for the West Computers to move beyond their roles and get promotions to other areas of the institution, such as working directly for an engineering team, unlike the white mathematicians. How history forgot the black women behind Nasa’s space race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z In a discussion about the roots of artistic inspiration, his friend Michael Ondaatje, the author “The English Patient,” told Mr. McBurney about the mathematicians and their friendship. Simon McBurney Discusses His ?Disappearing Number? 2010-07-02T08:19:00Z The popular image of a brilliant mathematician is a man who looks like Simon, and spends 23 hours a day alone in his mother's attic solving the most difficult problem in existence. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z After 1985 – when some mathematicians claim he suffered his "catastrophic intellectual collapse" – Simon took to collecting thousands of timetable publications. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z In the movie, Turing is the brilliant mathematician who breaks the Germans' Enigma code, helping to bring the war to an end. 'The Imitation Game' takes top prize at Toronto film fest 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z In addition to their comical musings, the display includes a comment on each cartoon by a mathematician, scientist or other expert. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Other events are pegged to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mathematician Alan Turing, whose universal Turing machine is the basis of today’s computers. The World Science Festival Arrives in New York 2012-05-24T22:01:03Z After the god Hermes offered Pythagoras any gift except immortality, the philosopher and mathematician decided “to retain, both living and dead, the memory of what he had experienced.” Review | Aristotle’s lisp, why Socrates loved dancing and other tales of ancient thinkers 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z She’s brilliant in her few scenes, yet hardly plays as full-fledged a character as she did in another film about mathematicians, “Hidden Figures.” Review: A ‘Gifted’ Girl at the Center of a Custody Battle 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z His father, originally a mathematician, had taken holy orders and, when Hurt was five years old, became parish priest at Woodville on the Derbyshire-Leicestershire border. John Hurt: Profile 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Then Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher, showed that the height of mercury in a barometer reflected the weight of the atmosphere, not nature’s abhorrence of a vacuum, as claimed by Aristotle. Understanding the universe 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Don't worry, it's all explained within the book with an appendix by mathematician and friend of Green, Daniel Bliss. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green - review 2013-04-13T14:00:00Z Vaughan joined a small group of other black female mathematicians, who would become known as the West Computers, segregated from their white counterparts. How history forgot the black women behind Nasa’s space race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z Saturday will also offer opportunities to attend a higher education fair and to watch a 7:30 p.m. screening of “Hidden Figures,” the 2016 film about black female mathematicians at NASA. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z I liken her to a mathematician or a scientist, someone who is obsessive in their thinking, and not versed in humanities in a social way. Juliette Lewis on 'Secrets and Lies' and Scientology: 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z She danced, but never performed, since her father, a prominent mathematician, feared a "bad reputation" attaching to the family. A life in dance: Akram Khan 2010-09-27T07:00:00Z He has a mathematician's recall for figures, and so he can spout connection times. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z A common strategy for a mathematician trying to understand what something is, is to try to understand why something else isn’t. Is your cat self-aware? 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z In the end the project covered a fraction of the original idea, involved hundreds of mathematicians from around the world, and took 15 years. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z In more than a dozen subsequent books, he analyzed the contributions of Einstein, Descartes and other scientists and mathematicians and demonstrated how statistics applied to everyday life — and to life beyond earth. Amir D. Aczel, author of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and other best sellers, dies 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z I worked with Ken Ono, one of the top mathematicians in the world. Matthew Brown Narrates a Scene From ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The Jena mathematician Erhard Weigel, for example, had a house built around 1670 in which he installed an arrangement of pulleys to convey him from one of its seven stories to another. The most important invention in the history of the modern city 2014-02-23T13:00:00Z She was this brilliant mathematician, but she lived in a time when intellect wasn’t really valued in women. The Imitation Game Director Morten Tyldum: We Didn't Need Gay Sex Scenes 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Wood is one of two mathematician fellows this year. Meet the new MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winners 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z A lasting image from the end of his father’s life: the stern mathematician tangled in his bed sheets, wearing only white underwear. Benjamin Scheuer and a life told in heartbreaking song at the Geffen 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z And so the story begins: Li-ling, whose English name is Marie, is a Chinese-Canadian mathematician recalling for us the mystery of her father’s sudden departure and suicide when she was 10 years old. Review: In ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing,’ a Portrait of Souls Snuffed Out 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Photograph: Matt Lloyd/Rex Features is in talks to play the British mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing in forthcoming biopic The Imitation Game, reports Deadline. Benedict Cumberbatch in line to play Alan Turing in The Imitation Game 2013-02-04T11:57:05Z “You are a very good painter but a very bad mathematician,” a magazine editor wrote when Knight undercharged for an illustration. Antiques: Knives of William Scagel, Storied Blacksmith, for Sale 2012-03-01T23:48:40Z Every 16th-century savant and scholar and crackpot aspired to study in Prague under great minds like the astronomer Johannes Kepler and the court mathematician, Tycho Brahe. Unmasking Magic and Murder in the Best New Crime 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z A dual biography that traces the poet’s tangled legacy and its influence on the lives of his widow and their daughter, who made a name for herself as a mathematician and astronomer. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z In the winter of 1985, Bellow's fourth wife, Alexandra, a celebrated mathematician, asked him for a divorce, and the couple separated. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Meanwhile, there's Nathaniel Rich's Odds Against Tomorrow, set in a future New York, about a mathematician who deals in worst-case scenarios. Global warning: the rise of 'cli-fi' 2013-05-31T07:00:04Z Neurath recruited gifted researchers and analysts to work with him, including the mathematician Marie Reidemeister, whom he later married, but found it harder to find artists and designers to create the symbols. Design: Universal Symbols That Tell the Story 2011-02-13T19:30:05Z The book series follows a mathematician who predicts the collapse of humanity. Factbox - Apple's media ambition: Original shows, news subscription 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Any reader will come away with a feel for what mathematicians are like as people, a taste of what they do for a living and an insight into why it excites them. Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos| Book review 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z Some agents were highly accomplished figures, such as Thomas Phelippes, a skilled linguist, mathematician and expert cryptographer. The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford – review 2012-08-17T21:55:05Z American mathematician Claude Shannon had 'a special genius'. James Gleick: 'Information poses as many challenges as opportunities' 2011-04-09T23:05:59Z In this program, part of the Family Fridays series at the National Museum of Mathematics, children will work with the mathematician Edmund Harriss to make interesting forms out of precut pieces of paper. Spare Times Listings for Kids for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Bobby Seagull – the mathematician who rose to fame as a finalist on University Challenge in 2017 – took them literally. All you need is maths? The man using equations to find love 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Still, it was an important learning experience for the ex-Israeli Army captain, who considered a career as a mathematician before shifting his focus to playwriting. A playwright who wants to change society, not merely observe it 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z “A Doubter’s Almanac,” which Random House is releasing on Tuesday, features a brilliant mathematician, Milo Andret, who proves a famously impenetrable conjecture as a young man, then destroys himself trying to top his crowning achievement. ‘A Doubter’s Almanac,’ Ethan Canin’s Latest Novel, Has Real-Life Parallels 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z A mathematician and logician, Turing was super smart but had difficulty communicating with others. Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z “Time’s imaginary anyway,” Ana’s mathematician father soon reminds us. A Tale of Soviet-Era Bucharest Probes the Ties Between Writer and Muse 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z In his youth, Richard Garfield, the mathematician who created Magic: The Gathering, liked to play and invent games. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Here, in drab rooms, about 9,000 mathematicians, linguists, cryptographers, clerks and classicists worked around the clock throughout the war to break German codes. Where the Real 'Imitation Game' Happened 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z And from Carl Sagan’s original series, one more cautionary tale: the story of Hypatia of Alexandria, a philosopher, astronomer and mathematician who lived in fourth-century Egypt in the waning days of the Roman Empire. Cosmic terror: Why Neil deGrasse Tyson has religious fundamentalists so freaked 2014-03-27T11:50:00Z The historic site in Milton Keynes is where mathematician Alan Turing cracked Nazi Germany’s “unbreakable” Enigma code. Britain's Kate views Bletchley Park codebreaker exhibit for D-Day 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Britannica defines the Klein bottle thus:Topological space, named for the German mathematician Felix Klein. Short story: Message in a (Klein) Bottle by Russell Hoban 2012-07-19T16:04:37Z I really wanted to talk about fiction and this idea that Ikenna is a fictionalizer; he creates stories and a world where he is a successful mathematician. Netflix's existential "Shine Your Eyes" searches for a man who "inhabits the world of fiction" 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Not as trivial as it sounds: it took almost a hundred years before his conjecture was proved by an eccentric Russian mathematician, Grigori Perelman, who then dramatically refused the million dollar prize for solving it. Henri Poincaré: the unlikely link between Einstein and Picasso 2012-07-17T11:48:23Z It’s named for Benjamin Banneker, an 18th century African American mathematician and astronomer and the subject of a poem by Rita Dove. The Big Cheeses From the Vineyard 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z “The best dancers are actually mathematicians,” she said. Country Dancing in the Big City 2010-12-02T23:00:00Z “A lot of the writers on The Simpsons are mathematicians.” Apparently 'The Simpsons' Discovered the Higgs Boson Particle Before Everyone Else 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Already in World War II, the mathematicians Norbert Wiener and Julian Bigelow understood the importance of feedback: the ability of devices to deliver intelligible information to users. Design That’s Got Users in Mind 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Claudius Ptolemy, the Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer and father of geography, called the Rwenzori range the Mountains of the Moon, and I think he got it about right. Mountains of the moon: climbing Uganda's highest peak 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z Lipska and her family members — her daughter is a physician; her son, a neuroscientist; her husband, a mathematician and computer software engineer; her sister, a physicist working in radiation oncology — researched every possible treatment avenue. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z “Black women being recruited to work as mathematicians at NASA’s southern installation defies what we think we know about American history.” Hidden Figures Calculates the Sum of a Story Untold 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Seldom do we hear about engineers, innovators and mathematicians, much less our black women in those positions. Black History Month viewing guide: the best new releases to see in February 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z The town attracts people of highly varied interests — tourists, boat builders, savants, artists, mathematicians, horticulturists, musicians, scientists, bird watchers, organic farmers, filmmakers. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z What rule of nature was found to connect a 13th-century Italian mathematician and the human uterus? The Observer science quiz 2012: part 2 2012-12-22T17:00:02Z A biography of the revolutionary mathematician who, like his friend Albert Einstein, found refuge from Hitler in Princeton. New & Noteworthy, From the Brat Pack to a Math Biography 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Given that not much happens in this opera, a meditation on the theories, attitudes and observations of the late-16th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, that seemed sufficient. Music Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Kepler’ at Spoleto Festival USA 2012-06-01T21:25:58Z A former child prodigy, he is still believed to be one of the world's great living mathematicians, although he hasn't held down an academic position since 1985, when he was 33. The Genius in My Basement by Alexander Masters - review 2011-08-24T13:30:01Z The mathematician Kurt Gödel upended his profession’s assumptions with his “incompleteness theorem,” presented in 1930, when he was 24. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Among the themes for this year's festival is the mathematician Alan Turing, who is credited with cracking a German code which helped end WWII. VIDEO: Digital arts fest lights up Conwy 2012-10-27T07:58:37Z The story of Nasa’s black female mathematicians has always been celebrated within the agency, but not widely known about beyond. How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z He also spends time talking about the eccentric archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians who have contributed to the world’s greatest discoveries. 35 Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The book is in fact a serious work by a mathematician at Cornell University in New York. Winner announced for world's oddest book title award 2010-03-26T00:00:00Z It was Claytor who suggested that Johnson become a research mathematician. Review | Katherine Johnson of ‘Hidden Figures’ tells her story in her own words 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z The essentials: Before the female mathematicians of “Hidden Figures” came along, another group of women blazed the science trail and became known as the Harvard Computers. The 99-seat beat: Carl Weathers, hidden figures and political warfare hit L.A.'s small theaters 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Pascal’s wager survives even among people who have never heard the name of the 17th-century French philosopher and mathematician. 15 ways atheists can stand up for rationality 2014-01-11T15:00:00Z Johnson was one of three female African-American mathematicians known as the “computers in skirts” who worked on the Redstone, Mercury and Apollo space programmes for Nasa. How three black women helped send John Glenn into orbit 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Benedict Cumberbatch takes on another brilliant but troubled mind in the new trailer for "The Imitation Game," a biopic about the British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing. 'Imitation Game' trailer: Can Benedict Cumberbatch crack the code? 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z The scenario: British mathematician Alan Turing and a team of cryptologists race to break the Nazi Enigma code during World War II. From page to soundstage: Award-contending films based on books 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z The mathematician John von Neumann was an undeniable genius whose many accomplishments included an essential role in the development of quantum mechanics, computing and the atom bomb. ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Cheng is a mathematician who believes we need to appreciate the value of alogic — emotion, that is — if we want to understand a world filled with irrational behavior. New & Noteworthy 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The musical starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling has faced some recent competition from "Hidden Figures," the tale of black female mathematicians in the 1960s space race. Amid record betting on Oscars, 'La La Land' is seen as a lock 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z "Alas, even at their peak, mathematicians tend not to be appreciated by the public." Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words for cultural trends 2010-12-16T19:00:29Z Diseased Animals You don’t have to be a mathematician to conclude that if a plant slaughters 19,000 pigs a day, the line moves pretty fast. 6 reasons to fear the pork you eat 2013-06-10T19:00:00Z He admits he went to university to broaden his horizons, rather than work towards a career as a mathematician. Universities should open their ears to live music 2013-05-09T07:40:36Z “They were mathematicians, which makes their story sound like homework,” she said. Toronto Film Festival: Just Don’t Call Them ‘Black Films’ 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Instead, the brilliant mathematician rejected the offer of chemical castration and went to prison, where, in blissful solitude, he laid down the theoretical principles that have enabled the creation of remarkably humanlike robots. Review | The robot revolution is coming: Will there be any room left for us? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z He is particularly interested in the appearance of new words—terms that were invented or appropriated by innovative mathematicians, physicians and philosophers, like discovery, experiment, fact, evidence, theory, and, in the end, even science. Understanding the universe 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z There were physicists and mathematicians, a cluster of coders, an engineer, a neuroscience major. Hacking the Humanities 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Weighing in with nearly 300 seats, patio included, Ada’s is named not for one of the principal’s cherished relations, but for the respected 19th-century English mathematician Ada Lovelace. Review | A Potomac view meets polished cooking at Ada’s on the River in Alexandria 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z They’re doing a Hollywood film of one of his recent novels, “The Rabbit Factor,” in which a rather neurotic insurance mathematician inherits an adventure park. Read Your Way Through Helsinki 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z Indeed Keynes himself wrote: “The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts…He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree.” A man for all seasons 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z But her peers had less of an impact on her than one of her professors from Black Mountain, the German mathematician Max Dehn. Art Review: From Theorems and Numbers, the Geometry of a Diverse Career 2011-07-21T22:35:53Z A brilliant mathematician and physicist, Johnson calculated the trajectory, launch windows and emergency backup plans for several U.S. spaceflights and was critical to their success. Top STEM toys are hands-on fun 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Actually, a dinosaur does not eat Goldblum’s brainy and brawny mathematician character, but chaos certainly reigns in the movie and its myriad sequels because of de-extinction. Would bringing back extinct animals turn out as badly as it did in ‘Jurassic Park’? 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Each metal element is of a different length and was hand-cut; the non-orthogonal angles at which they meet are a mathematician's dream – or nightmare. Antony Gormley drops 60-tonne load for monumental sculpture 2010-08-27T17:05:00Z During World War II, Babbitt worked on secret research projects for the government, drawing on his training as a mathematician. Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Just a week after soldiering through “The Demons,” I was reviewing another Lincoln Center Festival production, the Complicite show “A Disappearing Number,” about the lives of mathematicians both fictional and historical. Theater Talkback: Doing Your Homework 2010-07-22T16:31:00Z Simon is so close to a satisfying stereotype: the famous mathematician with electrified hair living in indescribable mess; the fallen and lonely genius. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z There will be artists, fashion designers, mathematicians, activists. Meltdown festival: Yoko Ono's choices 2013-05-11T23:04:07Z An astronomer, mathematician, navigator, alchemist, spy and celestial necromancer, Dee was a larger-than-life magus figure. The fantastic Dr Dee: angels, magic and the birth of modern science 2012-06-25T16:52:34Z Along with losing his family — a screenwriter mother, a mathematician father, a near-idolized older brother — Edward also loses the promise of continuing his childhood in California, where his mother had just gotten a job. 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z “The world of the unknown was waiting,” he said, “and it was up to a great mathematician to discover it.” A Math Biopic, With Dev Patel, Applies a Different Calculus 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z You seem to have a lot of fun parsing how mathematicians have evaluated the Torah and Shakespeare, and your book is filled with quotes from poets and philosophers. In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z But these broad bits of social and political satire — along with some silly drama involving emergency mathematicians — are the weakest elements of “The Anomaly.” Review | Hervé Le Tellier’s ‘The Anomaly’ has already sold a million copies in France. It should take off here, too. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z "This is a great honor. I will be happy if it encourages young female scientists and mathematicians," Mirzakhani was quoted as saying on Stanford's website. Iranian-born Stanford professor first woman to win top maths prize 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z He also thought a lot about “the opportunity I had to reach kids who might otherwise turn away from math,” he writes, “especially African-American kids, who had too few examples of black mathematicians.” He quit the NFL for a career in math. It wasn’t just about the concussions. 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z The Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős was notoriously prolific, someone to whom the magic tricks seemed to come enviably easily. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Al-Khalili profiles the astronomers, mathematicians and sundry boffins who have pondered the fundamental truths of our existence. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-03-21T08:00:02Z Together with his father, a physicist and mathematician, Penrose went on to design a staircase that simultaneously loops up and down. Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe by Roger Penrose ? review 2010-10-15T23:14:00Z One of the earliest known physicists, the Greek mathematician and physicist laid down the foundations of hydrostatics. Readers suggest the 10 best ... physicists 2013-05-15T11:30:00Z The mathematician, for example, might forget to apply the appropriate derivative formula to certain complex functionalities. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A Christmas story with plenty of bathroom humor 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z On weekdays, Benjamin F. Logan worked as a mathematician and electrical engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. Benjamin F. Logan, Engineer by Day and Bluegrass Fiddler by Night, Dies at 87 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Their characters are someone who helped to launch the rocket to Mars, someone who was a great mathematician, someone who’s a great sportswoman. For Madhuri Dixit, ‘The Fame Game’ Feels Familiar, if Not the Medium 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z “The Cro-Magnon” look, he calls it — wide forehead, frostbit eyes, a chin so square it must make mathematicians swoon. Rupert Friend Is Tired of Killing 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s sort of like if Albert Einstein was a little-known mathematician. The Imitation Game Director Morten Tyldum: We Didn't Need Gay Sex Scenes 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Ms. Benton called “Hidden Figures,” the Oscar-nominated film about some of the black female mathematicians who worked for NASA, “groundbreaking” in that regard. Black History Month: Pressing Forward on the Heels of Progress 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z In December 1915, while serving on the Russian front, the German astronomer and mathematician Karl Schwarzschild sent a letter to Albert Einstein that contained the first precise solution to the equations of general relativity. The Ecstasy of Scientific Discovery, and Its Agonizing Price 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z A geneticist and a mathematician dive deep into doomsday cults, alien life-forms, the origins of time and much more in this collection of writings on scientific myths and curiosities. Newly Published, From Art Criminals to Sentient Fungi 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z What made you want to do a film about mathematicians? Matthew Brown Narrates a Scene From ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z James Hawke is a mathematician and not a huge fan of theater. Ethan Hawke Dives into ‘Macbeth’ With Zeal 2013-11-25T13:11:02Z Strawberry Theatre Workshop is mounting a "Reverse the Curse" campaign for its September production of "Breaking the Code," the Hugh Whitemore play about English mathematician Alan Turing. Theater briefs: Discount at Strawberry; Intiman lists works under consideration for 2011 2010-09-01T19:58:00Z “You know, your agents always send you a little teaser blurb: ‘You’ll be meeting with Donna Gigliotti about her upcoming project about three black female mathematicians who helped get our astronauts into space.’ Octavia Spencer: ‘You need to see people of colour in big movies’ 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Instead, he offers this: “I’m looking forward to being considered that mathematician who used play football.” He quit the NFL for a career in math. It wasn’t just about the concussions. 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z But most poets and most mathematicians see what we do as very concrete, just looking at the world and pressing on it very hard and trying to figure out how it works. In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z By 9, Zohra was convinced: She wanted to be a professional musician — and a ballerina, a mathematician and a physicist. Far From Kabul, Building a New Life, With Music and Hope 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z But she was born in 1907 — for the edification of mathematicians in the room, I was a very late baby — and may have taken syntax cues from her mother, born in the 1860s. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Many of Henry’s fellow tinkerers were scientists and mathematicians who added mechanical arms to computers to guide pens across the screen or sheets of paper. Design: When Desmond Paul Henry Traded His Pen for a Machine 2011-02-27T19:00:05Z Norbert Wiener, a budding philosopher and mathematician, was 14, and William Sidis, a star in linguistics and mathematics, was only 11. Gifted and Talented and Complicated 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z At least that’s what scientists and mathematicians across the world think. Everyone is making coffee wrong, study suggests 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z That story of the two mathematicians was a very moving intermingling of the two cultures, ‘A Passage to India’ reversed and updated.” Simon McBurney Discusses His ?Disappearing Number? 2010-07-02T08:19:00Z The French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace separately arrived at the same reasoning a decade later. Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes - review 2012-12-12T07:00:00Z Russell Crowe and the crazy mathematician he played in “A Beautiful Mind” are never around when you need them. Social Q?s: The Sound of Two Hands Texting 2010-12-03T01:12:00Z In the 1970s, she went on a nationwide tour of universities and professional organizations, encouraging the country’s top women and people of color who were scientists, engineers and mathematicians to apply for the astronaut program. Nichelle Nichols Helped Show America a Different Future 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z Good thing the 73-year-old mathematician and physicist is, of course, no stranger to pop culture. Stephen Hawking has a theory on Zayn Malik leaving One Direction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z I find a lot of scientists and mathematicians are drawn to this music in a big way. After a Decade, a Monteverdi Masterpiece Flies Free 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Calm, polite and reasonable, her Philip was a mathematician and academic who would have explained their meeting and his unexpected demise with the laws of probability. 'I Married You for Happiness': the mystery of a lasting marriage 2011-09-14T21:52:04Z In the mid-1800s, Libri pilfered tens of thousands of precious manuscripts, tomes and documents from Italian and French libraries, including 72 letters written by the great French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes. Descartes letter found by web surfer heads home to France 2010-06-22T15:04:00Z But after reading the script and doing more research on Buss, he learned about him being a chemist, mathematician and just an overall mysterious person. ‘Winning Time’ shows authentic human side of Laker legends 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z DeWitt’s manic, brilliant new collection explores her interest in “fiction that shows the way mathematicians think,” as one character puts it. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Born in Switzerland in 1707, he was one of the most productive and influential mathematicians ever, yet surprisingly little has been written about him. The master of them all 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Never, said mathematicians, had they seen such a spectacular and thorough demotion. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z Sometimes we mathematicians call the things we think about and work with “objects,” which doesn’t mean triangles, spheres, or other shapes. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z “It is striking that, in the midst of a global war, and surrounded by a military hierarchy, the scientists, engineers and mathematicians working at Bletchley developed a notably creative and egalitarian management style.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The most famous account, by the English mathematician Thomas Harriot, enumerated the commodities that the English could extract from America’s fields and forests in a report he first published in 1588. Why the Pilgrims were actually able to survive 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z After A Beautiful Mind, Milk, The King’s Speech and Lincoln, the Great Man Theory flourishes anew in two biopics about brilliant Cambridge mathematicians with phenomenal achievements despite physical and social impediments. The Theory of Everything: A Grief History of Love 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The election of 1824 that Jackson lost to Adams after winning the popular vote, Timbers says, "was totally Gore versus Bush — the clinically cold but absolutely right mathematician versus the strong but wrong cowboy outsider." Remembering Michael Friedman: Interview from the earliest days of 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z The goal is to raise “the world’s greatest engineers, scientists, and mathematicians.” Review | While we wait for the ‘Bird Box’ sequel, its creator has a novel that’s yes, creepy 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z In California, through his uncle, a mathematician, he was introduced to Albert Einstein, with whom he kept up a close friendship over the years. Turhan Bey obituary 2012-10-10T17:06:20Z Its existence was revealed, not through a serendipitous observation by an astronomer but by the careful work of mathematicians. Neptune's first orbit: a turning point in astronomy 2011-07-09T23:06:13Z Because he's a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, these come with handwritten graphs and equations, but his explanations are cultural, his references literary. In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z There's also the left lobe of mathematician Charles Babbage, and two slides carrying pieces of Einstein's brain, kept by a pathologist and studied by scientists ever since for clues to his genius. Brains! London exhibition looks inside our skulls 2012-03-27T16:31:04Z "The Imitation Game," which stars Benedict Cumberbatch as British mathematician Alan Turing, was based on the biography "Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges. Watching the literary film contenders 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Need a scary skyscraper or a massive mathematician? Nick Gillett's top 10 games of 2010 2010-12-18T00:07:43Z After playing a sickly Indian mathematician struggling through five British winters in “Infinity,” Mr. Patel was, he admitted, “a twig.” Dev Patel Tapped His Inner Alpha for ‘Lion’ 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z "When you say, 'We're making this film about a gay English mathematician in the 1940s and at the end he kills himself,' people aren't instantly like, 'I have to be a part of that!'" Franklin Leonard's Black List can help green-light screenplays 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Years after I graduated, I read about a great mathematician whose laundress felt sorry for him because he couldn't add up his laundry list. Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos| Book review 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z The museum was also tapping into interest in Alan Turing: the brilliant mathematician, master code breaker and irascible, persecuted genius of “The Imitation Game.” Where the Real 'Imitation Game' Happened 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z An English mathematician and writer, she wrote the first-ever computer algorithm, put forth the idea that humanities and technology should coexist and dreamed up the concept of artificial intelligence. ‘The Innovators’ by Walter Isaacson: How Women Shaped Technology 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z There's the fact that it stars Jeff Morrow as a roguish engineer/pilot, and Mara Corday as mathematician Sally Caldwell, who is referred to as "Mademoiselle Mathematician." Moment of Friday: Gronk's 'Citizen Kane' is 1957's 'The Giant Claw' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The rocket is a Cedar 4, made by a group of scientists and mathematicians in the 1960s. Art Dubai and the Sharjah Biennial: talking about a revolution 2011-03-23T15:38:00Z For example, Meg, a graduate school dropout, isn’t a lapsed literary type, but a mathematician. | 'Milk': Emily DeVoti?s Barnyard at Here Arts Center 2010-05-06T21:23:00Z Kožená's father was a mathematician and her mother a biologist; she puts the fact that her musical talent was properly nurtured down to the rigorous communist education system. Magdalena Ko?en?: 'I'm not scared of the big maestro' 2012-05-16T18:00:01Z Nor can Cambridge's strange catalogue of scientists, mathematicians and philosophers from Newton through Hardy, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein and Turing be ignored. Stephen Fry recalls his student days for West End play: From the archive, 2 April 1988 2013-04-02T06:00:00Z His mother His friend's mother The local postmistress His teacher Robert Wilson's second world war thriller The Company of Strangers features an English mathematician and spy called Andrea Aspinall. Women spies 2010-07-07T12:09:00Z I don’t mean the arithmetic part, the part that people usually associate with being a mathematician. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z But it was the way that optical illusion lines raked through the dresses that needed a mathematician to understand. Fashion Review: Bottega Veneta: Tomas Maier Turns Soft Into Sharp 2014-02-23T18:32:32Z We're no mathematicians, but if yesterday's four-piece Trash Talk made a big noise, then Tweak Bird's achievement is doubly impressive because there are just two of them. New band of the day ? No 771: Tweak Bird 2010-04-22T14:04:00Z The visuals are striking against the backdrop of Paige Hathaway’s clean, pale set, composed of slightly askew building blocks that suggest both the playfulness of a child and the geometric mind of a mathematician. Review | ‘Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ is up to some new and mesmerizing tricks 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z In addition, Carroll was a mathematician, a logician, an Anglican deacon, and an inventor. Famous writers’ art and design 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z At Bletchley Park, the country estate where teams of linguists and mathematicians are working under military supervision to break Enigma, he is seen as stubborn and arrogant. ‘The Imitation Game’ Stars Benedict Cumberbatch 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z It was understandable why Taraji P. Henson called “Hidden Figures” important at a media event for that film, about a group of African American mathematicians — all female — who were instrumental in NASA’s early space programs. Fall is the season for Important Movies. But must issues trump excellence? 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Taimina, a mathematician at Cornell University, uses crochet to illustrate the properties of hyperbolic planes. Odd title prize for crochet book 2010-03-26T15:10:00Z The film starred Dustin Hoffman as an American mathematician pushed to violence by marauding hooligans at his adopted British home. David Zelag Goodman, Wide-Ranging Screenwriter, Dies at 81 2011-09-29T01:00:06Z For “The Imitation Game,” the biopic about the mathematician Alan Turing, the film’s designers wanted to portray that time with some accuracy, but to also enliven it. Below the Line: Designing 'The Imitation Game' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Octavia Spencer, an Oscar nominee for her role as the mathematician Dorothy Vaughan in “Hidden Figures,” interviews Gloria Steinem in a keynote conversation. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Finding Dory’ and ‘Gender Revolution: A Journey With Katie Couric’ 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z In 1947, having left Nazi-occupied Vienna for the quaint idyll of Princeton, N.J., seven years before, the mathematician Kurt Gödel was studying for his citizenship exam and became preoccupied with the mechanisms of American government. A New Biography of Kurt Gödel, Whose Brilliant Life Intersected With the Upheavals of the 20th Century 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Charles Babbage, the 19th- century inventor and mathematician who conducted groundbreaking experiments with computing machines. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z Losier is a filmmaker who, like a mathematician, shows her work: the relationship on which the film is built is built into the film. “Cassandro, the Exotico!,” Reviewed: An Intimate Portrait of a Lucha-Libre Star 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z In its impact on such soft sciences as economics and sociology, game theory represents the mechanization of policy by other means: the hardwiring of strategists and soldiers, mathematicians and logicians into the decision-making process. Weird suburbia: How atomic bombs and UFOs created modern America 2014-03-16T18:00:00Z With men at war and an Executive Order from President Roosevelt prohibiting discrimination in the defense industry, doors began to open for talented black mathematicians. Hidden Figures Calculates the Sum of a Story Untold 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Benoit Mandelbrot was a mathematician who’s known for his contributions to the field of fractal geometry. Best science fiction and fantasy books to read this month 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z He shares thoughts from the French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal as well: "All men seek happiness. This is without exception." Want to know what happiness is? Pastor Greg Laurie shares one key secret 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z There was something even appealing about Dr Wei's manner, the efforts of the fastidious mathematician to make friends. Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi – extract 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z Written by Latvian mathematician Daina Taimina, it was adjudged the winner of the annual Diagram Prize after a public vote run by the Bookseller magazine. Odd title prize for crochet book 2010-03-26T15:10:00Z I loved the wordplay and also the formulaic nature of the composition; perhaps this was an early stirring of the mathematician and computer scientist I would become. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Not being a mathematician, though, I'm puzzled by the way the site ranks movies and people who didn't actually receive any votes, or at least none that are listed. Oscar buzz: 'Les Mis' out in front 2012-11-29T20:33:24Z Only 27 but one of the world's best mathematicians, he has come down to Bletchley Park to offer his services as a code breaker, but the spit-and-polish man in charge, Cmdr. 'Imitation Game' a crackerjack tale about Enigma buster Alan Turing 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z He is survived by his son, Jack, a mathematician, and his daughter, Jenny, the BBC's director of audio and music until 2008. Chimen Abramsky obituary 2010-03-18T18:38:00Z “When someone asked me what Bach meant to me,” Mr. Harnoncourt once recalled of his youth, “I replied that he was a mathematician, and that this wasn’t truly great music!” An Austrian Maestro’s Career, Seen Through His Recordings 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z One of the most exciting talents to emerge from this boom is Matt Parker, who describes himself as a "stand-up mathematician", and is capable of generating big laughs using the deceptively simple power of numbers. This week's new live comedy 2012-12-01T00:06:03Z Boone, who suffers from an undisclosed autism spectrum disorder, is an avid mathematician and uses his genius to trace the killer’s path. Tony Awards Success Making Secondary Market Ticket Prices Rise for Several Broadway Shows 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z He was an alchemist, a Freemason, a mathematician, a kabbalist. A Conversation With: John Malkovich: John Malkovich on Casanova and Other Roles 2013-05-27T21:18:58Z She may have wanted all her life to be a scientist or mathematician. Guys keep dumping me 2012-09-04T00:00:00Z The structure, like the collection’s colorful knits, were designed according to the geometric theories of William Thurston, the U.S. mathematician who took a bow with the designer at the end of the show. Special Report: Designers Outline a New Geometry 2010-03-05T19:19:00Z At its peak, the club claimed 60 members, many of whom were still working as mathematicians, physicists, stockbrokers and the like. This checkers club is competing against the Internet and gentrification. Can it stay alive? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z They studied anatomy like doctors, nature like biologists and the laws of perspective like mathematicians. Experiencing Italy’s Renaissance 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z What they have in common with mathematicians is that the outside world sees them communicating in something other than standard English prose, and concludes they must be doing something really weird and abstract. In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Sam Blake, an Australian mathematician, first learned of the Zodiac Killer's unsolved ciphers — a series of encrypted messages — from a documentary in the 1990s. Zodiac's cipher codebreaker speaks out: Killer was his own self-defeating "publicist" 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z It's the first time in human history this has happened, so the physicians, mathematicians and various other egghead communities have their telescopes trained on potentially the most awesome event astronomy's ever seen. TV highlights 26/06/2013 2013-06-26T06:00:05Z Calculating the odds of a television program winning a series Emmy five years running is an exercise best left to a mathematician. Christopher Lloyd's award-winning funny bones 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z After gaining her degree in 1981, she married a Zimbabwean mathematician and moved to Harare to pursue a career as a government prosecutor. Courage of Zimbabwe human rights lawyer captured in film 2013-06-18T16:37:32Z So the king called in the lord high chamberlain, the royal wizard and the royal mathematician. When William Faulkner and Langston Hughes Wrote Children’s Books 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Hugh Prentice, a brilliant, dueling mathematician, nurses a distinct aversion to Lady Sarah Pleinsworth, who keeps nattering on about how she must get married this season or die. NW books | a new Julia Quinn tale, the greatest dinosaur ever 2013-12-16T20:05:49Z Soon after the death of her grandfather, a famous mathematician, Hazel obtains a mysterious letter from him directing her to track down and preserve some of his most important work. New in Paperback: ‘A Kind of Freedom,’ ‘Secrecy World’ 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Outwardly, there was nothing salty about Mr. Kleeman, a tall, skinny mathematician, who worked for a climate forecasting start-up and spent workdays knee-deep in algorithms. Love Sets Sail, Come Rain or Come Shine 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But kathak soloists are mathematicians above all, expert calculators of numbers and time. Review: The Spinning Mathematicians of Kathak Dance 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Stephen Hawking, the most revered scientist since Einstein, is a formidable mathematician and a formidable salesman. Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God 2010-09-07T17:30:00Z Part of the institution’s Math Encounters series, the event will be hosted by the mathematician Mike Naylor at 4 and 6:30 p.m. for those 12 and older. Spare Times for Aug. 1-7 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z A boston mathematician and astronomer established this observatory outside of downtown Flagstaff in 1894, and it was here in 1930 that astronomers discovered the planet Pluto. At the Grand Canyon, a cancer survivor rises to the challenge of a rim-to-rim-to-rim hike 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z He’s the perfect rational man, a Dutch mathematician born into a world of heroic engineering where people can no longer tell what land was made by nature and what by man. Love Among the Ruins 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z I hiked one of the winding trails with a high-energy Greek Australian mathematician, admiring the view of Athens and the port of Piraeus, a pearly jumble on the glittering Saronic Gulf. My European Ritual 2014-04-18T19:59:27Z O’Neil, a mathematician and former Wall Street analyst, offers a frightening look at the algorithms that regulate and shape people’s lives. Paperback Row 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z On paper, Mr. Estrada, a Mexican composer and mathematician who recently turned 70, cuts a forbidding figure. Music Review: Julio Estrada, at Miller Theater, in ICE Composer Portraits 2013-05-17T21:03:20Z He re-emerged two years later as a mathematician incarcerated in a mental hospital. The Zero Hour – review 2013-01-31T17:43:00Z In the early 1970s, new tessellations and how to represent them were developed by Marjorie Rice, an amateur mathematician who became interested in the subject after reading an article about it. Spare Times for Feb. 1-7 2013-01-31T23:16:48Z Plus, it didn't take a mathematician to calculate that one artist, Swift, dominated the charts over the last year and that she would therefore leave with the most awards. Billboard Music Awards are ho-hum, but Taylor Swift was impressed 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Albert Einstein called the groundbreaking mathematician Kurt Gödel the greatest logician since Aristotle. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z But Simon is a different and much more common type of mathematician. The genius who lives downstairs 2011-08-19T22:01:50Z I’m a mathematician, do you know what I mean? Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Benefits and Moral Quandaries of a World Run by Code 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Crouching Tiger, Hidden Figures: Three mathematicians defeat Qing Dynasty warriors by flying perfectly calculated trajectories. Style Invitational Week 1243: We bid you, no T-R-U-M-P 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z “The true horror” of the singularity, he told a fellow mathematician, was that it created a “blind spot, fundamentally unknowable,” since even light would be unable to escape it. The Ecstasy of Scientific Discovery, and Its Agonizing Price 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Thomas has a very abstract vision of everything, and Deck is more of a mathematician – when there's a decision about harmonic complexities, he's there. Phoenix Metaphors 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z Oh, you’re in the mood for a weighty biography of one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century? 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z In “Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms,” the mathematician Hannah Fry looks closely at the potential benefits and hazards of a world increasingly run by code. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Benefits and Moral Quandaries of a World Run by Code 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Donald Hall recalled Wright declaiming German poetry “for 20 minutes to an astonished assembly of mathematicians.” An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z “I really want to write a film about a gay English mathematician in the 1940s who commits suicide in the end,” he said. On the Oscars red carpet: Gawking, quick conversations and tequila 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP At 90, the painter Ellsworth Kelly is a man on a mission to beat the clock; part magician, part mathematician, he works with the precision and clarity of a poet. My hero: Ellsworth Kelly by AM Homes 2013-05-03T15:05:01Z The Imitation Game - the tale of how British mathematician Alan Turing broke the German Enigma code in World War Two - opens in cinemas this week. Cumberbatch tackles Nazi code 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Prodigiously gifted as both musician and mathematician, Babbitt taught mathematics at Princeton during the latter part of the second world war, when the faculty was depleted. Milton Babbitt obituary 2011-01-30T18:29:19Z McCormack describes Pierce and the new show as "'A Beautiful Mind' meets 'Columbo'" - a combination of the Oscar-winning movie about a mathematician and the TV detective series. "Will & Grace" star returns to TV in "Perception" 2012-07-05T20:19:14Z I’ve wondered about this from the time I first contemplated being a mathematician until long after I officially became one. The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The squeeze bottles, set swinging by the mathematician Pau Atela to pour white fluid into narrowing circles and spirals on the floor, are used and removed first. Dance Review: Aki Sasamoto’s ‘Centripetal Run,’ at the Chocolate Factory 2012-11-30T22:51:52Z NASA’s largely unrecognized female mathematicians were black and white, she said, and this story, told from the perspective of three black women, paid homage to them all. Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Octavia Spencer, who burst into mass consciousness playing a maid in “The Help,” is playing a mathematician in “Hidden Figures.” Has there been an ‘Obama effect’ in Hollywood? 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z "The Imitation Game," a biopic about British mathematician and World War Two code-breaker Alan Turing, won the top prize at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. 'The Imitation Game' takes top prize at Toronto film fest 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z He met up with Garfield in Oregon, where the young mathematician was visiting his parents. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z During the space race, NASA’s Langley Research Center employed black female mathematicians to calculate, among other things, launch and landing for the country’s first astronauts. The ‘Hidden Figures’ stars on how working at NASA in the 1960s is a little like Hollywood 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The Traveling Salesman Problem was described in the early 19th century, but it was a problem without a name until 1949, when the mathematician Julia Robinson first used the term in a paper. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z Hidden Figures, which explored the role of a team of female African American mathematicians in the Nasa space programme, was hugely successful. From Nico to Tonya Harding, women’s true stories are being told on film at last 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z This fascinating play by Hugh Whitemore, about the brilliant English mathematician Alan Turing, was last staged professionally in Seattle a dozen years ago. Wave of season-opening shows in Seattle: 'Full Monty,' Ann Landers, 'Breaking the Code' 2010-09-10T04:01:00Z “You don’t need to be a mathematician to know this is a great deal,” BJ’s says. Pi Day Deals: The restaurants and fast-food chains offering discounted pie on March 14 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Dee was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, navigator, book collector, philosopher and proponent of empire for an expanding Britain. Music Review: An Alchemist Reaches Out Across Centuries 2011-07-03T19:14:09Z Filmed in black-and-white like an art house movie, seven contemporary mathematicians each divulge, eloquently and passionately, the magnetism of math. In Transit Blog: Creativity Meets Math at Fondation Cartier in Paris 2012-01-02T11:00:26Z As cops are tracking down a brain-stealing killer, she plays a woman who may or may not be the figment of a mathematician’s imagination. Tilda Swinton's performances – ranked! 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Last month, Hidden Figures, which celebrates black female Nasa mathematicians, topped the US box office for two weeks. Did #OscarsSoWhite work? Looking beyond Hollywood's diversity drought 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z “What are the chances,” he asked, “that two mathematicians give birth to a kid who plays the lead in a film called ‘Life of Pi’?” ‘Life of Pi’ Is New Ang Lee Film, Based on Yann Martel Tale 2012-09-09T03:43:02Z She was a mathematician who also taught philosophy and astronomy. If you like 'Agora,' Scarecrow suggests 'Kingdom of Heaven,' 'Contact,' 'Gladiator' and 'Rome' 2010-07-22T21:42:00Z There are not many people alive who could pull off being an influential political adviser, a mathematician and scientist, and a magician and mystic all at the same time. Magical mystery man 2011-06-07T07:09:40Z For Wide Open School Margaret Wertheim will lead three workshops on the history of Western scientific thinking about space from Descartes to string theory, asking how do mathematicians and physicists conceive of space? Making space: where art meets physics 2012-06-13T17:07:50Z Outside in the depth of a Chicago winter, a young woman named Catherine is looking at her father, Robert, a brilliant mathematician who suffers from mental illness. Review | Seamless cast in a gripping ‘Proof’ at Olney 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Turing, a brilliant mathematician, struggles with people, which at times hampers his efforts. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Insecure’ and ‘Who Is America?’ 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Ofili, the Chapman brothers and Jenny Saville are among British artists who will be displayed in a vast underground museum being built outside Hobart in Tasmania by David Walsh, 48, a mathematician and professional gambler. Art collectors build museums to let public see private hoards 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Turing was a British genius mathematician and a pioneer in computer science who hastened the end of World War Two by cracking Germany's wartime communications code. Nazi code breaker Alan Turing's notebook to be sold at auction 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z |
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