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The Professor with a Billion Students

Ben Orlin of Math with Bad Drawings on the The Professor with a Billion Students Last September in Germany, between talks at the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, I managed to catch a few minutes … Read more

Three Rules for Tackling a World-Famous Math Problem

Ben Orlin of Math with Bad Drawings brings you Three Rules for Tackling a World-Famous Math Problem While I was listening to Sir Andrew Wiles speak, I saw the writer next to me had … Read more

- Martin Holzherr
- Zu: Permutations and Tribulations
Quantamagazine’s article Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover tells us a further story from a mathematical achievement by a non-mathematician (citation): Philip Gibbs is not … Read more
- Martin Holzherr
- Zu: Permutations and Tribulations
Amateurs who delve into mathematics and do the hard works probably think of G.H.Hardys sentence “‘Immortality’ may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician … Read more
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- Zu: First Impressions of the Second Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The scientific programme of the HLF includes plenary talks by the laureates, a panel discussion (the topic of this year was quantum computing), student poster … Read more
- Martin Holzherr
- Zu: Permutations and Tribulations
Greg Egan is already the second non-mathematician and outsider who lately scribbled a prove – the other is Audrey de Grey. Seems that there are … Read more
- shinta
- Zu: Atmosphere and Light: Impressionism in Algebraic Geometry
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The Professor with a Billion Students

Three Rules for Tackling a World-Famous Math Problem