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Alan Turing in America(medium.com)
57 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|18 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 7y ago
To your question: Google "The Riemann Hypothesis, explained" and look for an older essay of mine from 2016. Still unsolved
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by jorgenveisdal 7y ago
Google the titles and they should come up. I'm actually looking for suggestions, so didn't include links
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Ask HN: I write mathematical essays. What do you want to read?
12 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|8 comments
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Brownian Motion in Financial Markets(medium.com)
2 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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Shannon Ciphers(medium.com)
2 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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Pilecki's Report(en.wikipedia.org)
104 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|20 comments
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The Poincaré Conjecture, Explained(medium.com)
4 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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The Mathematics of Elo Ratings(medium.com)
2 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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What Is a Black Swan Event?(medium.com)
2 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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Göttingen: The Mathematical Center of the Universe(medium.com)
18 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|2 comments
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Ramanujan’s First Letter to G.H.Hardy(medium.com)
34 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|5 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 7y ago
Actually, he didn’t. I looked into it about six months ago. Einstein clearly got there first. Essay: https://medium.com/cantors-paradise/einstein-and-hilberts-ra...
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Richard Feynman on the Differences Between Mathematics and Physics(medium.com)
2 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 7y ago
Obviously also check out the show "Manhattan"
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The Eccentric and Ingenious Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer(medium.com)
3 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|1 comments
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The Ramanujan Summation: 1 and 2 and 3 and ⋯ + ∞ = -1/12?(medium.com)
5 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|1 comments
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Richard Feynman on Artificial General Intelligence(medium.com)
5 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 7y ago
Tao will be remembered 500 years from now.
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The Mathematics of Good Will Hunting, with Solutions(medium.com)
2 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Lose Weight, Mathematically(medium.com)
2 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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Richard Feynman on Artificial General Intelligence(medium.com)
7 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|1 comments
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The Most Intelligent Photograph Ever Taken (1927)(medium.com)
1 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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The Golden Age of Quantum Physics(medium.com)
9 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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A Computability Proof of Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem(medium.com)
102 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|40 comments
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by jorgenveisdal 7y ago
In terms of sheer power of computation, I would say clearly not. Take, for instance, his race against David Hilbert to get the equations of general relativity in correct form. It's not perfectly clear that Einstein was able to keep up
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by jorgenveisdal 7y ago
I tend to agree, but Macrae isn't bad.
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The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann(medium.com)
636 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|319 comments
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A Brief Early History of Quantum Mechanics(medium.com)
4 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments
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The Nash Equilibrium, Explained(medium.com)
2 points by jorgenveisdal 7y ago|0 comments

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