Science and SciFi
Donaldson one of five to win most lucrative mathematics prize ever established Simon Donaldson received the ‘Breakthrough’ $3m (£1.8m) prize and trophy for “new revolutionary invariants of four-dimensional manifolds”. The Breakthrough prize in mathematics was… Read More »Prof Simon Donaldson of Imperial College, London, wins 1.8 million pound prize #Maths
Back in October 2010, Nature Materials published a Focus Editorial on Mexico in which I contributed with Joerg Heber. You can find information about it here: Focus issue:October 2010 Volume 9, No 10 Nature Materials: http://www.nature.com/nmat/focus/mexico/index.html#ed Interview Editorial Commentary… Read More »Nature Materials: Focus Editorial Mexico
A few days ago I received a request from a reader (Thanks Paulo Zan) for information about magnetic resonance. The request did not specify more than that so I took the liberty of deciding… Read More »Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Hace unos días recibí una petición de un lector (Gracias Paulo Zan) para obtener información acerca de la resonancia magnética. La solicitud no especificó más que eso por lo que me tomé la libertad de… Read More »Imágenes con Resonancia Magnética (MRI)
To celebrate the puzzle’s 40th anniversary, today’s Google Doodle is a fully-functional Rubik’s Cube! If you had a cube for every possible arrangement of the 54 colored squares, and you laid them end-to-end, those 43,252,003,274,489,856,000… Read More »40th anniversary of the famous Rubik’s cube
Maria Gaetana Agnesi is credited to be the first western woman to gain a reputation as s mathematician. The mathematical curve that bears her name, the witch of Agnesi, appeared in her book Instituzioni analitiche… Read More »Happy birthday Agnesi!
