In June 2022, Emma Haruka Iwao determined the value of pi to 100 trillion digits! When Archimedes first determined this value, his was only three digits. His life…
When the mercurial Girolamo Cardano met the hot-tempered Lodovico Ferrari, it sparked a successful working relationship that ended in death! Who murdered Ferrari?
The Greek philosopher Aristotle was born in 384 BCE. The Italian philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225. Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564. Between the three of them, there is a story that spans almost 2000 years. That story is known as the Galileo Affair.
Is mathematics invented or discovered? And if it is invented, can it be patented? Has it ever been patented? I will discuss this in today’s episode.
Now that Pi day is over, I have only one question: Where did the decimal come from?
Every year the United Nations honors women and girls in STEM…
read more
Last month, as I covered a great deal of material on Tesla, I found a cool multiplication circle called…
read more
Some of us go through life with gnawing thoughts of “I always wanted to be a _________.” If the word “scientist” ends this sentence for you, but you feel that your goal is out of reach, think again. You can still become a scientist, even without a Ph.D. and even without a college education. Many individuals, called autodidacts, are active
What do the 2020 Mercedes-Benz AMG Project One, the McLaren Speedtail, the Lucid Air, the Hispano-Suiza Carmen Boulogne, the Delage D12, the Aria FXE, and the Aston Martin Valkyrie have in common with the Industrial Revolution?
Will we ever evolve into intelligent beings? Is the universe really infinite? What is infinity? For the sake of brevity, I am going to address the third question.