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Mark Dodds in Cantor’s Paradise

Sep 2, 2018

The Ramanujan Essays

The Ramanujan Summation: 1 + 2 + 3 + ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12?

112 responses

Jørgen Veisdal in Cantor’s Paradise

Nov 11, 2019

The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann

“Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann…

33 responses

Jørgen Veisdal in Cantor’s Paradise

Aug 21, 2016

The Riemann Hypothesis, explained

It’s been called the most difficult problem in mathematics. What is…

70 responses

Panda the Red in Cantor’s Paradise

Jul 15, 2018

The Feynman Essays

Richard Feynman’s Integral Trick

26 responses

Jørgen Veisdal in Cantor’s Paradise

Jul 31, 2019

The Math Problems from Good Will Hunting, w/ solutions

11 responses

Jørgen Veisdal in Cantor’s Paradise

Jul 13, 2019

The Black-Scholes formula, explained

Introduction to the most famous equation in finance

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Jørgen Veisdal in Cantor’s Paradise

Feb 26, 2020

When Feynman met Dirac

“I am Feynman. I am Dirac. (Silence)”

9 responses

Jørgen Veisdal in Cantor’s Paradise

Jul 11, 2019

The Turing Essays

Uncomputable Numbers

Real numbers we can never know the value of

10 responses

Kasper Müller in Cantor’s Paradise

Apr 15, 2021

The Beautiful Gamma Function and the Genius Who Discovered It

What is the factorial of 1/2?

12 responses

Jørgen Veisdal in Cantor’s Paradise

May 11, 2020

The Feynman Essays

Richard Feynman’s Advice to a Young Stephen Wolfram (1985)

17 responses

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