Appendix 2 (unpublished) from Infinite Powers
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John Bardeen: The Greatest Physicist You (Probably) Never Heard Of→
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He might have won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956 and 1972, but the man who invented the transistor and solved superconductivity is far from a household name.
- BBC Science Focus, September 18, 2019
That Vexing Math Equation? Here’s an Addition→
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The confusion (likely intentional) boiled down to a discrepancy between the math rules used in grade school and in high school.
-The New York Times, August 5, 2019
The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet→
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Sometimes BODMAS is just PEMDAS by another name. And no, the answer is not 100.
- The New York Times, August 2, 2019
How Calculus Was the Unsung Hero in the Fight against HIV→
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The story of a differential equation and a medical breakthrough.
- Scientific American, April 1, 2019
Pi Day: How One Irrational Number Made Us Modern→
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The famous mathematical ratio, estimated to more than 22 trillion digits (and counting), is the perfect symbol for our species’ long effort to tame infinity.
- The New York Times, March 14, 2019
Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem foreshadows the scientist he later became.
- The New Yorker
November 19, 2015