Cantor’s Paradise

The theoretical limit of backward time traveling gives rise to many paradoxes

Galileo, Kepler and Newton challenged the ruling elite of Europe, fighting for science over religion.

The equation connects neuron firing, fluid convection, the Mandelbrot set and so much more and will definitely change your view of this…

Mathematical intuitionism (which is a subset of mathematical constructivism) has it (or had it) that mathematics is purely the result of…

Solving Quadratics using gradients at the roots

What does it mean that a probability is “correct” and how could you possibly know?

When I was a small child I got lost at a store with lots of aisles. I remember being very scared that my mom would never find me. I walked…

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

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

“The greatest mathematician of the 20th century” -Le Monde (2014)

“When we met, was I walking to the faculty club or away from it? I’m wondering, because in the latter case I’ve already had my lunch”

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

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

“The Man Who Loved Only Numbers”

“He was so incredibly himself” — Herta Newman

An introduction to Georg Cantor’s transfinite paradise