A Few Popular Math Articles
``The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is
the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true
science. Whoever does not know it can no longer wonder, no longer marvel,
is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of
mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. A knowledge
of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the
profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their
most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge
and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only
this sense, I am a deeply religious man... I am satisfied with the mystery
of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense of the marvelous structure
of existence -- as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny
portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.'' -- Albert Einstein.
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Click here for a short article about
the ``Hidden Music of our Language''.
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Click here for an article about ``What if P=NP?... or `The end of the world
as we know it' '' ( Here is another blog posting that is a little more
up-beat about the consequences if P=NP.)
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Click here for an article about
``The footprints of quantum mechanics on the infinite seashores of
the primes.''
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Click here for an aritcle
about ``The ancient Egyptians and the language of modern computers:
binary numbers''. Here is an interesting video of ``Fractals in Africa''
(among other things, it mentions the use of binary arithmetic by
African cultures; mainly, it is about fractals).
Click here for an article about
``Arabesques and the 17 symmetries, Alhambra and beyond''.
Here is a fascinating video in which Alhambra features prominently
(coincidentally, it was posted to the ted.com website about two weeks after
I wrote my article.)
Click here for an article
about ``A secret of life?: Stanley Miller, Quines and Kleene''.
Click here for a survey on ``artificial chemistries''.
Tim Gowers has recently started up a
new Polymath project to explore the origins of life, and you can see
this webpage by clicking here .
Coming soon: An article titled, ``A beautiful cloud in the
billiards of Bunimovich''.