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Large Numbers (1948)

A Classic Paper by J.E. Littlewood

May 2 •

Jørgen Veisdal

January 2025

Turing's Work on the Riemann Hypothesis

Alan Turing (1912-54) is a well-known name for a variety of reasons.

Jan 24 •

Jørgen Veisdal

John F. Nash Jr.'s Letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1957)

"There is general phenomenon, affecting mathematics and physics, of evolutionary elegantizing camouflage"

Jan 17 •

Jørgen Veisdal

The Origins of Deutsche Physik (1910s)

“Just as the cubists had an inability to paint decently, so, here lies together the audacity and the inability the theoretical physicists want to impose…

Jan 6 •

Jørgen Veisdal

November 2024

The Battle Line at Louvain (1914)

“Where they burn books, they will also burn people” — Heinrich Heine

Nov 15, 2024 •

Jørgen Veisdal

Nash's Invention of Non-Cooperative Game Theory (1949-50)

"The entire edifice of game theory rests on two theorems: von Neumann’s min-max theorem of 1928 and Nash’s equilibrium theorem of 1950" - Nasar (1998)

Nov 5, 2024 •

Jørgen Veisdal

October 2024

The Entscheidungsproblem (1930s)

In the early 1930s, the provincial town of Princeton, New Jersey was already well on its way to becoming a hotbed for mathematical exploration.

Oct 4, 2024 •

Jørgen Veisdal

August 2024

John von Neumann's 1935 letter to Oswald Veblen

The book John von Neumann: Selected Letters* by Miklós Rédei (2005) is a fascinating collection of 150 of John von Neumann (1903-57)’s correspondences…

Aug 30, 2024 •

Jørgen Veisdal

The von Neumann-Morgenstern Collaboration (1938-43)

“It will be a strange essay for economists, but it can be important. Very.”

Aug 21, 2024 •

Jørgen Veisdal

Abel: The Mozart of Mathematics

“Although Abel shared with many mathematicians a complete lack of musical talent, I will not sound absurd if I compare his kind of productivity and his…

Aug 16, 2024 •

Jørgen Veisdal

May 2024

Sir Arthur Eddington's Grand Expedition (1919)

Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) was quite a lucky man.

May 8, 2024 •

Jørgen Veisdal

April 2024

The Birth of AI (1956)

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was an academic workshop sometimes considered to be the founding moment for artificial…

Apr 28, 2024 •

Jørgen Veisdal

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