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In the history of mathematics and economics, Karl Menger is a fairly anonymous figure. This, perhaps, for a few reasons. Although he was a prodigy, Kar…
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Hi there. Around 2010, as an undergraduate in mathematics I fell absolutely in love with the Riemann hypothesis (RH), as one does. I spent Friday night…
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If asset prices in the short term show an identifiable pattern, won’t speculators find this pattern and exploit it, thereby eliminating it?
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“Oh, by the way, what was it that they were playing?” asked von Neumann. “Nash,” answered Tucker, allowing the corners of his mouth to turn up ever so …
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Episode 5: The Eccentricities of J. Robert OppenheimerThis episode of The Privatdozent Podcast is based on the May 25th 2021 newsletter ‘The Eccentricities of J. Robert Oppenheimer'. Read by Steve King, th…
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“There is a rumor in America that there are two intelligent races on Earth: Humans and Hungarians” — Isaac Asimov
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“I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a du…
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Mathematician Alexander Grothendieck was born in 1928 to anarchist parents who left him to spend the majority of his formative years with foster parent…
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Episode 4: The Bohr-Einstein DebateListen now (30 min) | This episode of The Privatdozent Podcast is based on the May 25th 2021 newsletter ‘The Bohr-Einstein Debate'. Read by Steve King,…
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When asked how to best describe his friend Paul Erdős (1913–1996)’, mathematician Joel Spencer (1946-) once wrote the following: “Mathematical truth is…
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The “most intelligent photograph ever taken”, as it is sometimes known, was captured during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and …
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Episode 3: On Norbert Wiener's Relationship with Bertrand RussellListen now (22 min) | This episode of The Privatdozent Podcast is based on the March 22nd 2021 newsletter 'On Norbert Wiener's Relationship with Bertra…
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