(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 ]...
the mantra is “I will learn it when I need it”. It was good enough for my daddy and it has served me well so far. Let’s apply this thinking to finance, “I will invest my money when I think I need the money”. Somehow it doesn’t quite have the same...
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...
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 ...
try to be as clever as we might, but all the algorithms, engineering methodologies, all those years and years of research will have to be thrown out as we phase out digital computer. then those old ideas will just have to shelved to collect dust as the future will see them as nothing ...
have been a pioneer in the fields of paediatric public health, vaccinology and vitamin therapy and inasmuch as he is to this day considered to be the “guardian angel” of the Aboriginals of Australia, in his homeland in Greece he is a Great Greek. He might not had been able to speak ...
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 ...
“Thought became free and boundless and fought its way out of superstition and ecclesiasticism to the time when a whole age would be named after a writer, and Voltaire might say, ‘I have no scepter, but I have a pen.’” “I never cease admiring the French Enlightenment; all in all...
"If it never got beyond the hard-hitting things, I wouldn't have been very suitable,"said Kinks drummer Mick Avory. It might be one reason the Kinks' used a session drummer on their proto-metal missile "You Really Got Me" (though Avory contributed tambourine). But as Kinks' frontman Ra...