Rethinking questions and chasing patterns led Newton to find the connection between curves and infinite sums.
— Quanta Magazine, August 31, 2022
How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series→
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How Infinite Series Reveal the Unity of Mathematics→
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Infinite sums are among the most underrated yet powerful concepts in mathematics, capable of linking concepts across math’s vast web.
— Quanta Magazine, January 24, 2022
Who's Afraid of Big Numbers?→
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Pretty much everyone. But it doesn’t have to be that way, two mathematicians contend.
-The New York Times, June 17, 2021
From a Swinging Chandelier to Global Positioning Systems (PDF)→
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Calculus has unraveled mysteries that puzzled scientists for centuries, and it has led to technologies they never would have imagined.
— American Scientist, March-April, 2021
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
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
How Existentialism Helped Me Get My First Date→
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With apologies to Jean-Paul Sartre.
- Cornell Transformative Humanities Series, April 23, 2016
Einstein's First Proof (PDF)→
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The style of his boyhood Pythagorean proof portends something of the later scientist.
- The New Yorker, November 19, 2015
Why Pi Matters (PDF)→
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Why do mathematicians care so much about pi?
- The New Yorker, March 13, 2015
Einstein's boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem foreshadows the scientist he later became.
- The New Yorker
November 19, 2015