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Happy birthday Agnesi!
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!
Happy birthday Dorothy Hodgkin
Very glad to see that today’s Google Doodle is dedicated to the 104th birthday anniversary of Dorothy Hodgkin, known for the development of protein crystallography and establishing the structures of vitamin B12 and penicillin. X-ray… Read More »Happy birthday Dorothy Hodgkin
Changing date/time in Ubuntu virtualbox
I was a bit puzzled by the fact I could not easily change the date/time in an instance of a virtualbox as used by the High Performance Scientific Computing Coursera course run by Dr. Randall J.… Read More »Changing date/time in Ubuntu virtualbox
Sorted for some geeky reading
Very pleased with the post that arrived today. It looks like I am sorted for my healthy dose of geeky reading.
Harvesting magnetic fields…
A few days ago I got a message from my mate Jorge Soto… always great to hear from him, particularly with New Year wishes and even better with an interesting question: The question is related… Read More »Harvesting magnetic fields…
Grace Hopper Doodle
Once again Google puts out a doodle worth mentioning. This time they celebrate the 107th birthday anniversary of computer scientist Grace Hopper. In case you do not know who Hopper is, well, let me… Read More »Grace Hopper Doodle