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The Men Who Actually Discovered the Big Bang
New book explores the forgotten figures behind one of the greatest scientific discoveries in history.
The New Book on the Big Bang that Roger Penrose is Praising
Meet the forgotten men who discovered evidence for an expanding universe.
Kurt Gödel’s “Incompleteness Theorem”
For Kurt Gödel, mathematics pointed to a remarkable world of transcendent order and meaning
Iterations of Immortality
If it is beauty that governs the mathematician’s soul, it is truth and certainty that remind him of his dutyby David Berlinski Editor’s note: We are delighted to welcome Science After Babel, the latest book from mathematician and philosopher David Berlinski. This article is adapted from Chapter 7. The calculus and the rich body of mathematical analysis to which it gave rise made modern science possible, but it was the algorithm that made possible the modern world. They are utterly different, these ideas. The calculus serves the imperial vision of mathematical physics. It is a vision in which the real elements of the world are revealed to be its elementary constituents: particles, forces, fields, or even a strange fused combination of space and time. Written in the language of mathematics, a single set of fearfully compressed laws describes their secret Read More ›