Francois Viète’s cryptanalysis marked a turning point in the French Wars of Religion, but his genius methods weren’t as complex as one might think.
A brilliant mathematician once wrote, “For a person of intelligence is well equipped to solve the problems of life… we must have some defined aim in life and be able to fill competently that position in which we may find ourselves… let each defeat be a source of a new endeavor and each victory the strengthening of our spirit of
Omar Khayyam was an interdisciplinary thinker. He was a mathematician, a philosopher, a political advisor, and a famous poet. This is his story.
Galois was murdered the early morning of May 30. He was only 22. For the brief years in which he practiced mathematics, his theories revolutionized the foundations of abstract algebra.
When the mercurial Girolamo Cardano met the hot-tempered Lodovico Ferrari, it sparked a successful working relationship that ended in death! Who murdered Ferrari?
Quantum Computers and Brahmagupta — how do the two go together?
