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@cjohnson
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
Thought is like a strike of lightning in a long night: but it is that lightning which is everything.
Henri Poincaré, as interpreted by Cédric Villani
Why do we reduce great discoveries to epiphany myths?
A philosopher's observation that many of his students don't seem to believe in an objective morality, and why he believes this opinion is so commonplace.
Nice video about gravitational lensing and its use in astronomy.
The big news out of the International Congress of Mathematicians, currently taking place in Seoul, South Korea, is that Maryam Mirzakhani was awarded a Fields Medal, becoming the first woman to receive math’s highest honor. Mirzakhani’s win also speaks to another cultural change in mathematics. Her research area, dynamics, is...
A very quick overview of dynamics in Slate, the area that two of this year's four Fields medalists study.
A short video about Maryam Mirzakhani, one of the four new Fields medalists.
...mathematics is so rich and infinite that it is impossible to learn it systematically, and if you wait to master one topic before moving on to the next, you'll never get anywhere. Instead, you'll have tendrils of knowledge extending far from your comfort zone. Then you can later backfill from these tendrils, and extend your comfort zone; this is much easier to do than learning "forwards".
Ravi Vakil
Scientists are a famously anonymous lot, but few can match in the depths of her perverse and unmerited obscurity the 20th-century mathematical genius Emmy Noether.
"It would be a very dull universe for any intelligent being were everything of importance to be known."
The ideal situation occurs when the things that we regard as beautiful are also regarded by other people as useful.
Donald Knuth
Enlightening the man on the street with a beautifully simple experiment.
Before functoriality, people lived in caves.
Brian Conrad
Nothing is more fatal to the progress of the human mind than to presume that our view of science is ultimate, that our triumphs are complete, that there are no mysteries in nature, and that there are no new worlds to conquer.
Humphry Davy