the best part is in UAE schools, conduct is an actual subject on a student's transcript, worth 100 points. if a student engages in fairly/severely dangerous violations, which can include spreading extremist political material, they do not just get a detention; they fail the

he hated "why": most investors spend their lives asking why a stock moved (earnings, news, geopolitics). simons’ breakthrough was deciding that "why" is a waste of time. in the early days of renaissance, a researcher once tried to explain a successful signal by linking it to a

in a rare intersection of science & royalty, the nobel laureate sir c.v raman once needed a massive, pure diamond for his research on the properties of gemstones. most museums & collectors refused to let him handle their treasures. however, the maharaja of darbhanga simply handed

nash’s PhD thesis, which expanded on this 1950 paper, is a legend among grad students who are currently writing 300 page books :)) his entire dissertation was only 26 pages long & contained only 2 citations. 1 citation was to von neumann, & the other was to himself (his own 1950

as usual a fantastic read. while preparing for a historic trip to china that never happened (he died just before), de gaulle consulted extensively with experts on chinese thought. in china, de gaulle is known as dai gao le (戴高乐). while most foreign names are phonetic, this one

here is an extraordinary part: to build the hedayah center (the global think tank for countering extremism in abu dhabi), the UAE did something unusual. they did nt just ban extremist literature; they built a massive analytical library of it. researchers spent yrs

ashtavakra’s other disciples (mostly monks) were often jealous of king janaka, thinking, "how can this rich king be enlightened while we, who have given up everything, are still struggling?" 1 day, while ashtavakra was preaching, he had a messenger run in & shout, "the monkeys

true & here is a little history behind this problem: it was 1st formally proposed by the french mathematician pierre remond de montmort in 1708 & it took montmort & nicolaus bernoulli ~5 yrs of correspondence to arrive at the solution. to put this in perspective, modern students

fantastic find!

amazing..in fact, in the early 1900s, math tables were so valuable that they were frequently plagiarized. to catch thieves, authors like jahnke & emde would sometimes plant mathematical watermarks: intentional, tiny errors in the 8th/9th decimal place of a non-critical value :))

even though einstein failed the exam, his physics & math scores were so staggeringly high that prof. weber (the head of the physics dept. at that time) took the unprecedented step of inviting einstein, a failed applicant to stay in zurich & audit his university level lectures.

touched down in barcelona this morning for work. by 9:30 am, all cash & cards were gone during a daylight robbery. police did their bit with the complaint, expectations suitably low. europe, you never disappoint.

people will instinctively reach for a calculator to solve this, but the true math is found in a single point on a graph. the function f(x) = x^(1/x) reaches its absolute global maximum at exactly x = e (~ 2.718). cos pi > e, the value of pi^(1/pi) is actually decreasing from the

we can drop a mouse down a 1000 yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock & walks away. a rat is killed, a man is broken, & a horse splashes. cos of the ratio of surface area/mass. a mouse’s terminal velocity is so low that it cannot reach a speed

just a few meters away on the same street, someone else tried to rob me again today. i happily told them i have nothing left to be robbed, plz use your productivity elsewhere. i have finally achieved the cold & austere beauty, mathematician bertrand russell spoke of: a state of

He did not even look at me, not fair :p

tweet of the day :))

Newton was a secret heretic who rejected the trinity, believing it was a corruption of the original religion. in his private alchemical notebooks, he often signed his name as Jehovah Sanctus Unus (Jehovah, the Holy One). this was an anagram of the latinized version of his name,