Thoughtful Woman Inspired by Edward Hopper.

Vincent van Gogh The Night Cafe

RIP to the most aerodynamic of dudes

On 16 July 1969, the Apollo 11 spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The crew consisted of three astronauts: Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin. The launch vehicle used for Apollo

I was aware that Paul Douglas, who co invented the Douglas-Cobb production function was a Senator — I did _not_ know that he enlisted in the Marines at age 50 in WW2, requested combat duty, and won two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star

The yellow in Vincent van Gogh's paintings

David Hockney

Claude Monet

"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present." - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 6.4311

My problem with Kindles, iPads, e-readers. When I'm reading a book or a PDF, I jump around a lot. I like to, e.g., flip to the index to see if the author treats a particular idea that's just occurred to me; turn back a few pages to remind myself of something; grasp the structure

Sookja Rho (Korean) Sunflower, 1985

Because ThePrint believes in liberal economy… Do track our series #IndianLiberalsMatter Here, Nani Palkhiwala writes in a 1991 essay… 'Like a gambler, govts squandered India’s legacy through mindless socialism' theprint.in/opinion/indian…

#WATCH | Mumbai, Maharashtra: The Lodha Foundation officially inaugurates the Lodha Mathematical Sciences Institute (LMSI) in Mumbai, unveiling India’s first privately funded mathematics research institute. (17:08)

A few days ago, Charlie Plosser passed away, another sad loss in a year that has not been kind to the profession. Charlie was one of the great macroeconomists of his generation, and it is difficult to single out just one of his contributions. His 1983 paper with John Long in

But it wasn't easy for Ramanujan, being so far away from home, a stranger in a strange land. To find out more our friends over at the YouTube channel Fern produced this video all about Ramanujan's tragic life in collaboration with us: youtu.be/fHRS_NOs24w?si…

Claim: gpt-5-pro can prove new interesting mathematics. Proof: I took a convex optimization paper with a clean open problem in it and asked gpt-5-pro to work on it. It proved a better bound than what is in the paper, and I checked the proof it's correct. Details below.

The Man Who Planted Trees by Kit Boyd

Published today, an important paper proposes a framework dividing total fertility rate into two component parts: TFR = Total Maternity Rate (TMR) x Children per Mother (CPM) This lens shows that virtually all recent declines in fertility were due to increasing childlessness. 🧵

As we approach the Fall semester, some ancient wisdom on learning... The student obtains: one quarter from the teacher, one quarter through own intellect, one quarter from fellow students, and one quarter through the passage of time.