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The „Dismal” State of Mathematics Textbooks and How to Improve It
For most students, mathematics and computer science can be difficult, daunting subjects. That may be hard to grasp if you have dedicated your career to one of the two, but surveys from several countries show …
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Komplexe Analysis und der harmonische Oszillator
Wozu kann man komplexe Funktionen gebrauchen? Und insbesondere die spezielle Sorte komplexer Funktionen, die ich Ihnen im vorletzten Beitrag vorgestellt habe, die holomorphen? Auf diese Frage, die in den Kommentaren dieses Beitrags intensiv gestellt wurde, …
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HLFF Spotlight – Alumni in Action
This Spotlight shines on the deeply passionate computer scientist and alumna of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), Aderonke Busayo Sakpere from Nigeria.
We sat down with her to talk about two of her ongoing projects: “Kọ́Èdè”, an app to help early childhood learning of her native Yoruba language, as well as the Tech Girls Club, a mentorship program for young women in STEM that she founded in 2019. Weiterlesen
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Maths That Rings a Bell
If you have spent any time in the English countryside, you may have heard the sounds of bellringers merrily chiming from a nearby church tower – a peculiarly British pursuit in which, given a set of bells tuned to different notes and sufficiently skilled bellringers, a variety of tunes can be performed. But is there a mathematical aspect to bellringing too? Weiterlesen
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Caffarelli und die freien Ränder
Der argentinische Mathematiker Luis Caffarelli (Jahrgang 1948), der heute an der University of Texas in Austin arbeitet, erhält in diesem Jahr den Abelpreis „für seine wegweisenden Beiträge zur Regularitätstheorie partieller Differenzialgleichungen, insbesondere freie Randwertprobleme und die Monge-Ampère-Gleichung“. Weiterlesen
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From Networks to the Turing Award: How Robert Metcalfe Changed the Internet and the World
The 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award was awarded to Robert “Bob” Metcalfe. Often regarded as the highest prize in computing, the Turing Award is often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing.” Metcalfe was awarded the prize for the “invention, standardization, and commercialization” of one of the earliest, most impactful, and most extensively utilized networking technologies – Ethernet. Weiterlesen
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Die Entdeckung der holomorphen Funktionen
Werden die Gegenstände der Mathematik erfunden oder entdeckt? Das ist eine Frage, über die man trefflich streiten kann, wie nicht nur die professionellen Philosophen, sondern auch die zahlreichen Kommentatoren meines letzten Beitrags eindrucksvoll bewiesen haben. …
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HLFF Spotlight – Alumni in Action
This week, our spotlight shines on mathematician, computer scientist and alumnus of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Edin Liđan. In our interview, we talk about his love for mathematics and his AlumNode funded project “Making Early Mathematics Learning Available and Fun.” Weiterlesen