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Hi there A few mathematicians’ biographies are especially notable, both in terms of the mathematicians’ achievements and their personalities. Nash, von…

Jørgen Veisdal

Apr 23, 2022

John von Neumann: The Man from the Future (2022)A conversation with Ananyo Bhattacharya. Ananyo is an accomplished writer who has worked at both Nature and The Economist and holds a Ph.D. in…

Jørgen Veisdal

Apr 5, 2022

Hi there As some of you may have gathered, I’m fascinated with the history of game theory, especially what occurred in Vienna in the 1930s and Princeton…

Jørgen Veisdal

Mar 11, 2022

Hi there! As a writer I get a lot of milage from certain topics. Among these are Einstein, Turing, quantum theory, game theory and, Richard P. Feynman…

Jørgen Veisdal

Jan 11, 2022

Hi there. Although a lot of my writing about physics has been about Einstein and his work, the history of quantum mechanics comes up quite often as…

Jørgen Veisdal

Dec 4, 2021

Around 2010, as an undergraduate in mathematics I fell absolutely in love with the Riemann hypothesis (RH), as one does. I spent Friday nights…

Jørgen Veisdal

Oct 21, 2021

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