''String Theory for Mathematicians - Lecture 1'' One might say that this is a slightly redundant title, but this series of lectures is giving me a shot at understanding string theory. youtube.com/watch?v=BO2ZHd…

AMM monthly Problem 12029.

Finally, here is my new book, "The Integrity of the Qur'an: Sunni and Shi‘i Historical Narratives." It is fully open-access! #OpenAccess #Quran #Hadith #IslamicStudies #Sunni #Shia #Islamiclaw: jstor.org/stable/10.3366…

How far we have come since Bethe wrote that last sentence in 1956! We now have neutrino astronomy and cosmology.

Berlin in July 1945 (HD 1080p color footage) youtu.be/R5i9k7s9X_A?si… via YouTube

Why are feminism and anti-men so popular? Sick thoughts and disturbed minds are loved

Have you ever been confronted to a hairy, unwieldy, ugly inequality involving sums of powers of sequences? Something you'd like to check, but don't have the patience, time, or rough paper to deal with? Something you'd like to automatize? Well, Hölder my beer—you're in luck! 1/

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Our genome might work like Large Language Models arxiv.org/pdf/2407.15908

Here I explain the complex Poincaré Conjecture in simple terms. This century-old problem is crucial for understanding the shape of the universe and structure of three-dimensional spaces. Discover how it was finally solved by Grigori Perelman and why it matters in math and

The replies and reactions are quite confusing. It is well attested in history that late antique philosophers especially the Neoplatonists thought little of scriptural religion and dismissed the God of scriptures as the opposite of pristine monotheism. The Neoplatonists of the

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I find this quite astonishing. Users on X and journalists correctly point out that President Trump's administration has calculated the tariffs slapped on countries worldwide on the basis of the trade deficit in goods with each country (exports - imports) divided by imports from

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On this day, 17 July in 1984, 🇵🇱 Jerzy Kukuczka and Wojciech Kurtyka achieved Broad Peak (8047 m) Massif traverse. In the summer of 1984, 🇵🇱 Jerzy Kukuczka and Wojciech Kurtyka stood beneath Broad Peak’s untouched northwest ridge, a wild and untried line through a mountain

K2 "Where faith takes the place of eyes"

When a war drags on, countries around it take positions to protect their interests from harm. Once this happens, the war machine is set in motion, and it benefits no one for the war to end, as the corridor of profit shifts.