Each year we try to have something unusual for the final article of the year. While the endgame studies this time may not fulfill this criterion, your author wanted to provide some deeper, partially philosophical, thoughts. | Photo: Midjourney
"To learn all that is learnable; to deliver all collected data to the Creator on the third planet. That is the programming." (Vejur, née Voyager 6, in Star Trek: The Motion Picture) Imagine a vast growing sphere centered on the Earth with a radius of fifteen billion miles, the distance a beam of light travels…
No reckoning allowed save the marvelous arithmetics of distance (from Smelling the Wind by Audre Lorde) Suppose a child comes up to you and says “I know 1 is odd and 2 is even, but I think 4 is more even than 2, and 1/2 is more odd than 1.” You might be tempted to…
The Fields Medal is awarded to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement and the promise of future accomplishments. Now a second woman has received this highest mathematical honor. It is a Ukrainian woman who teaches in Lausanne, writes Lars Jaeger in his article on finews.first.