Anup Anand Singh

@elementaryblog

Conversations on physics and mathematics, animal rights, The Beatles and more

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    “He was one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century,” a colleague said of Louis Nirenberg, who shared his field's top honor with John F. Nash Jr., he of "A Beautiful Mind." Dr. Nirenberg has died at 94. 

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    Who do I write a sternly-worded letter to? Animals went into space before we did, just saying. The least we could do is name things after them.

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    Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, set in Lagos, Nigeria... A three-part drama exclusive to Radio 4. Listen on

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    When debate is futile – remembering Bertrand Russell (who died on this day in 1970 with a Nobel Prize and the consolation of his unfaltering personal integrity) with his magnificent response to a fascist's provocation

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  5. What a delightful outcome to a rummage through Spotify for podcast episodes featuring ! 
Thank you, , for the magical words, for the magical voice.

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    Patti Smith on the love of libraries and the transformative power of reading – a touching recollection of her childhood, involving book-earned bronchitis and her mother’s “sympathetic exasperation”

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    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character. My best reading of 2019. Brilliant book, funny and full of learnings. Interesting stories about his life.

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    Provocative quote in here from Dirac, remarking that we need classical mechanics to define quantum mechanics, even though it really should be a limit of quantum mechanics. Happily now we know better, and classical mechanics isn't needed at all!

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    Odgovor korisnicima i sljedećem broju korisnika:

    To me, at least, the asymptotic approach toward complete certainty is one of the least interesting aspects of computer-aided mathematics. It's much more interesting when computers help people discover things they otherwise wouldn't.

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    (ht Scott Aaronson)

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    Cut a paper circle, fold it so that the circumference falls on a fixed point. Repeat. This is how you paper-fold an ellipse [source: ]

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    "Casting Native Hawai'ians' opposition to the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea as a contest between science and religion is a red herring that distracts from a deeper problem with modern science." | Nithyanand Rao writes.

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    You’ll rarely find something this comprehensive, yet this engaging, on geometry and physics, and the beautiful interplay that unfolds between the two. Sir Roger Penrose with , this is one gigantic Portal episode to indulge in.

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    Here's a visual proof that (2a+1)²=8Tₐ+1, where Tₐ is a triangle number Tₐ = 1+2+...+a ⚫️🔴🔴🔴🔴⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️ ⚫️⚫️🔴🔴🔴⚫️⚫️⚫️🔴 ⚫️⚫️⚫️🔴🔴⚫️⚫️🔴🔴 ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️🔴⚫️🔴🔴🔴 🔴🔴🔴🔴🔵🔴🔴🔴🔴 🔴🔴🔴⚫️🔴⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️ 🔴🔴⚫️⚫️🔴🔴⚫️⚫️⚫️ 🔴⚫️⚫️⚫️🔴🔴🔴⚫️⚫️ ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️🔴🔴🔴🔴⚫️

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    Math may be a primary character in my book, but it always plays a supporting role to what my book is really about: the elevation of human dignity. In this blog post, I describe the goals I had while writing :

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    “Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” Bertrand Russell died on this day in 1970, at 97, having learned how to grow old:

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    The year is 1617. A spindly middle-aged mathematician and astrologer with bad skin and a boundless mind is racing through the icy German countryside to save his mother from the witchcraft trial in which his epoch-making scientific theories have landed her:

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    me, an astrophysicist who has published 2 (nearly 3!) papers on Betelgeuse and specializes in supernovae: *tweets about Betelgeuse* men in my mentions: “well actually it may have already exploded do you know how light works here’s the Wikipedia link also calm down”

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