(He seems to have been a much better mathematician than Chang, but just as Newton might have gotten nowhere without Kepler, Vieta, Huygens, Fermat, Wallis, Cavalieri, etc., so Liu Hui might have achieved little had Chang not preserved the ancient Chinese learnings.) Among Liu's achievements...
Littlewood's response was that it was possible to be too strong of a mathematician, "forcing through, where another might be driven to a different, and possibly more fruitful, approach." Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar (1887-1920) India -- [ #14 ]...
In your modern life, you might be using some of Benjamin Franklin�s favorite inventions. Throughout his life, Franklin struggled with poor eyesight. Sometime in the mid-1780s, he decided to fix this problem by creating the first known pair of bifocals. For many Americans, these optical t...
As a journalist might say, Albert Einstein was the whole package: unique look (wild hair, untidy sweater),wittypersonality (his words, such as God not playing dice, would live on) and major scientific reputation (his papers turned physics upside down). Time magazine named him Person ofthe ...
work and the erotics of ass-slapping. But their deadliest weapon was the way they hit hilarious insights on male neurosis, the topic they know best, as in their attention-getting sketch about the word (looks around nervously) "biiiiiitch." And Obama's Anger Translator might be one of the...
Fermi was trying to puzzle out the decay products of uranium and elements that might lie beyond it, as element 93, neptunium, had just been discovered by Edwin McMillian and Philip Abelson. Fermi asked Goeppert Mayer to calculate the eigenfunctions of Erwin Schrödinger’s equation for the ...
For me, the bottom line on which school is best comes from the late Stanford behaviorist, Amos Tversky: "It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what...
I thinkexceptions still applyand “Women Who Love Too Much” will always exist. But as a general tendency, Prioleau might be right. Less money and status: money and status, that never were the main ingredient of love and seduction, probably have even less draw today on moreindependent women...
For example, Fisher would speak to management, staff, other shareholders, anyone who might have an interesting viewpoint. Buffett is known to have been heavily influenced by Fisher. Amazon score: 4.4 36 – Long-Term Secrets to Short-Term Trading ...
What Murnau might have accomplished, had the German-born silent director not died in a car crash at age 42, is one of Hollywood's great what-ifs. But there's nothing iffy about his contribution to the film canon — his gift for storytelling was so profound, you barely notice the absence...