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“Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.” — G. H. Hardy (1877–1947) was a brilliant mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory and mathematical analysis. Born in 1877 in England, he was renowned for his eccentric personality and his predilection for pure mathematics, which he believed should be pursued for its own sake rather than for any…

The scientist who inspired Einstein “Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the days before Newton had announced the true laws of the motion of bodies”. -James Clerk Maxwell James Clerk Maxwell (…

The debate over who invented abstraction, from Kandinsky to Af Klint — For decades, it was thought that the first artist to take the momentous step of painting entirely abstract art was Wassily Kandinsky in 1911. What the historians didn’t consider was that there was someone else entirely removed from mainstream artistic circles at the time who had beaten Kandinsky to it…

In Florida, What Happened During The Civil Rights Era, Stays In The Civil Rights Era — I have lived in Florida for 46 years and had not heard of East Florida State College (EFSC) before today. To be fair, I had heard of its predecessor, Brevard Community College, which changed its name in 2013 when it changed its curriculum to offer four-year degrees. They have a…

If I was one of them, I am sure my reaction would be no different — It will be an unprecedented arrest. A fingerprinting of the kind that has not occurred in our nation’s 246-year history. …

In which America needs to reject populism and embrace the elitism of intellectual superiority — The American Dream is dead. It doesn’t matter that it was always an illusion. American optimism was always tied to the idea of hope, hope that tomorrow would be better than today, next year better than the one we were in. For most of the 20th century, we relied on…