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When Turing met Wittgenstein (1939)
Famously, after obtaining his Ph.D. from Princeton University in June of 1938, Alan Turing (1912-54) turned down an offer from John von Neumann…
Apr 22
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Great Purge (1933)
“If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — Adolf…
Apr 15
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Einstein-Freud Correspondence (1932)
Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?
Apr 5
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Jørgen Veisdal
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August 2022
The Birth of the Institute for Advanced Study (1930)
"A first-rate research institution with no teachers, no students, no classes, only researchers protected from the vicissitudes and pressures of the…
Aug 26, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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March 2022
The Beautiful Life of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr (1928-2015). was born in Bluefield, West Virginia in 1928. He died in a car crash in New Jersey on the 23rd of May…
Mar 23, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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February 2022
Paul Samuelson's Flavors of Randomness (2004)
“The baseball announcer has it, of course, conveniently all wrong. Ted Williams is due to hit because he hasn’t hit for seven days. That’s red noise…
Feb 27, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Legend of Abraham Wald
Historians of science sometimes lament the fact certain historical figures are famous for the wrong reasons. Alan Turing (1912-54) is perhaps the best…
Feb 12, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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January 2022
Cantor's Diagonal Argument (1891)
“Diagonalization seems to show that there is an inexhaustibility phenomenon for definability similar to that for provability” — Franzén (2004) Georg…
Jan 25, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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John F. Nash's Work in Pure Mathematics
It’s fair to say that John F. Nash Jr. (1928-2015) didn’t earn much respect from pure mathematicians for his work in game theory. To them, his use of…
Jan 14, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Einstein's Emigration to America (1932)
In May of 1932, a viciously anti-Semetic illustrated brochure entitled Juden Sehen Dich An (“Jews are Watching You”) featured Einstein in its prologue…
Jan 6, 2022
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Jørgen Veisdal
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December 2021
The Median Voter Theorem (1948)
In public choice economics, the median voter theorem states that “In a majority rule voting system, the candidate/party most preferred by the median…
Dec 20, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Nash's Bargaining Problem (1950)
Just before John Nash made his breakthrough discovery of the Nash equilibrium, he wrote his first paper on another problem later to be known as Nash’s…
Dec 3, 2021
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