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You and Your Research (1986)

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Universal Install Script (2016)

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The Remarkable Ivan Sutherland

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The exploding Ford Pinto of 1973 (2021)

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Alan MacMasters: How the great toaster hoax was exposed

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My PhD Genealogy

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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time

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"Ducks,” the Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton’s new graphic memoir

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Xkcd: Universe Price Tiers

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John A Phillips

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The Dymaxion car: Buckminster Fuller’s failed automobile

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The night I met Einstein (1955)

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Fields Medal was never meant for ‘the greatest mathematical genius' (2018)

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When Carl Sagan sued Apple twice (2014)

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He dropped out to become a poet – now he’s won a Fields Medal

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Major discoveries made by mathematicians past age 50 (2010)

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Majority of mathematicians hail from just 24 scientific ‘families’ (2016)

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Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House

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The Unravelling of an Expert on Serial Killers

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Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89

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A math tutor teaching calculus on Pornhub

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A new biography of John von Neumann

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Steal This Comic

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What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos

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Doing a Job – The Management Philosophy of Adm. Hyman G. Rickover

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You and Your Research (1986)

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Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory (2016)

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Oliver Heaviside (1850-1925) – Physical Mathematician (1983)

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Closer to finding what became of Moses Schönfinkel, inventor of combinators

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Hawking Hawking

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Paul Erdős (2000)

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The Bank of England unveils design of new £50 banknote featuring Alan Turing

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Gödel's Loophole

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A singular mind: Roger Penrose on his Nobel Prize

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The Life of Einstein's First Wife

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Freeman Dyson’s letters offer another glimpse of genius

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The life-changing love of Paul Dirac (2015)

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Banned math book

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Ron Graham has died

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The Anarchist Abstractionist – Who Was Alexander Grothendieck?

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When Einstein Was Just Another Physicist

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Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius (2017)

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Emilie du Châtelet and her work on Newton's Principia

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Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall

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Longest-Serving Professor at Cornell Reflects on Journey Through Academia

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The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann

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Avoiding Intellectual Phase Lock

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Rethinking Robert's Rules of Order

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The Economics of Kenneth Arrow

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A book from Alan Turing and a mysterious piece of paper

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The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős

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Alan Turing to feature on new £50 note

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Claude Shannon: The Bit Player

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Goro Shimura has died

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Claude Shannon’s “Creative Thinking” Speech (2017)

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From Asylum Seeker to Fields Medal Winner at Cambridge

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How Claude Shannon Re-Invented Information (2017)

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Marvin Pipkin, inventor of the frosted light bulb

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Jerry Merryman, an inventor of the handheld calculator, dies at 86

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Clair Patterson: scientist and campaigner against lead poisoning (2017)

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Michael Atiyah has died

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The Erdos Paradox

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Robert Langlands: The Greatest Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of?

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My Grandfather Thought He Solved a Cosmic Mystery

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Robert and Virginia Heinlein's Colorado Springs House

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Charles Kao, Nobel laureate who revolutionized fiber optics, has died

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You and Your Research (1986)

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Bayesian analysis suggests that John Lennon wrote the music for 'In My Life'

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Ernst Dickmanns, a German scientist who developed self-driving cars in the 1980s

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Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire

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The Eccentric Lives of Steinhaus, Banach and Ulam (2014)

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'Mind Over Matter': Stephen Hawking – Obituary by Roger Penrose

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The duties of John von Neumann's assistant (1993)

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Claude Shannon built a machine to game roulette (2017)

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The Mathematical Genius of Auto-Tune

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Vladimir Voevodsky has died

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Claude Shannon and Juggling

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Collection of letters by Alan Turing found in filing cabinet

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Memories of Kurt Gödel

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Vint Cerf savours a life of Claude Shannon

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Betty Shannon, Unsung Mathematical Genius

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In Game Theory, No Clear Path to Equilibrium

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Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1931)

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Alexander Grothendieck: A Country Known Only by Name

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Alexander Grothendieck, a genius of mathematics (2015)

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John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician (2015)

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What were Einstein and Gödel talking about? (2005)

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Paul Erdős: a life that added up to something (1996)

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“Infinitely Rich” Mathematician Richard Guy Turns 100

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Bogdanov affair

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Majority of mathematicians hail from 24 scientific ‘families’

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Game Theory – Prison Breakthrough

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Elsevier – My part in its downfall (2012)

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Jane Fawcett, British Decoder Who Helped Doom the Bismarck, Dies at 95

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Henri Bergson’s debate with Albert Einstein swayed the 1921 Nobel committee

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Claude Shannon Turns 1100100

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Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto

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Polish codebreakers 'cracked Enigma before Alan Turing'

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Isaac Asimov: Man of 7,560,000 Words (1969)

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Satoshi Nakamoto Is Probably This Unknown Australian Genius?

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Lavoisier died at age 50, on the guillotine

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Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace

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Thomas Quick: The serial killer who wasn't

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The Tau Manifesto

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John Conway – The world’s most charismatic mathematician

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Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table

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“Profession” (1957)

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John and Alicia Nash, 1928,1933-2015

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John Nash receives Abel Prize for revered work in mathematics

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The 1980 Math Olympiad Program: Where are they now?

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Mathematicians who died under unfortunate or unfitting circumstances

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The Pursuit of Beauty: Yitang Zhang solves a pure-math mystery

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Alexander Grothendieck, the secret genius of mathematics

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The Genius and Faith of Faraday and Maxwell

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A Poor Imitation of Alan Turing

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Mathematical Analysis of The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Chord

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The Loneliest Genius

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Joan Clarke, Woman Who Cracked Enigma with Alan Turing

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Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? (1977) [pdf]

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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (1998)

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A Brazilian Wunderkind Who Calms Chaos

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XKCD: Research Ethics

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Gödel’s Loophole in the US constitution

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HomestarRunner.com was updated today for the first time in nearly four years.

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A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D

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Stanford Ovshinsky: the greatest scientist you've never heard of?

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The Man Who Invented Modern Probability

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When Einstein Met Tagore

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Elsevier journals: has anything changed?

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You've heard of Markov chains. But who was Markov?

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The Fifth problem: math and anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union

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A Conversation With Randall Munroe, the Creator of XKCD

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Bill Thurston has died

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Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Quotes

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In Honor of Alan Turing: A message from the sponsor

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10,000 People Sign Petition to Honor Alan Turing by Putting Him on the £10 Note

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Fields medalist Tim Gowers: Elsevier — my part in its downfall

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A History of Bayes' Theorem

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What was John Nash like as a professor?

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The pi is a lie… Happy Half Tau Day!

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Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Richard Hamming and the Messy Art of Becoming Great

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No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto (Tau Day, 2010)

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[It is official:] Russian math genius ignores $1 million Millennium Prize

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Isaac Asimov: The Last Answer

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Perelman declines 1M prize: "I have everything I want"

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Xkcd - Linux, a cautionary tale

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The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerator (2020)

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Paul Erdős, the most prolific mathematician

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Walter Shawlee, the sovereign of slide rules, has died

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Xkcd: Greenhouse Effect

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What John von Neumann did at Los Alamos (2020)

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Xkcd 1928: Seven Years (2017)

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Jim Simons has died

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The spy who flunked it: Kurt Gödel's forgotten part in the atom-bomb story

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Why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?

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Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel

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Klára Dán von Neumann

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Xkcd: CrowdStrike

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Oscar Zariski was one of the founders of modern algebraic geometry

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Alexander Grothendieck

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