“Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don’t know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.” —Benjamin ...
Euler's identity: Math geeks extol its beauty, even finding in it hints of a myste­rious connected­ness in the universe. It's on tank tops and coffee mugs. Aliens, apparently, carve it into crop ...
A recent entry in the visitor’s book of the James Joyce Tower & Museum in Sandycove, Dublin, perplexed the Friends of Joyce’s Tower, the volunteers who run the museum. The entry, reproduced as the ...
At some point every year I find myself standing at the supermarket check out line perusing People Magazine's Most Beautiful People issue. Every year my reaction is the same, something like "Justin ...