Undoubtedly, mathematics can be complex in any of its numerous branches. Some children pick up the concepts quite quickly and ...

Genius Failed Famously, Sir Isaac Newton lost nearly his entire net worth--20,000 pounds, equivalent to about $4 million in today's U.S. dollars--investing in one of the earliest stocks available. The ...

https://doi.org/10.5951/jresematheduc.43.4.0465 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5951/jresematheduc.43.4.0465 Copy URL The purpose of this article is to elaborate ...

Like great art, great thought experiments have implications unintended by their creators. Take philosopher John Searle’s Chinese room experiment. Searle concocted it to convince us that computers ...

If the World Science Festival's panel on string theory tackled the question of whether the math behind it could be a reliable guide to reality, its panel on the Limits of Understanding seemed to ...