Geniuses

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Geniuses born today: February 26

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Geniuses born today: February 26

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Geniuses born today: February 26

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Geniuses born today: February 26

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Giulio Natta

Victor Hugo

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Amedeo Avogadro

An Italian scientist, most noted for his contribution to molecular theory.

Jacob Bernoulli

A Swiss mathematician who was a proponent of Leibnizian calculus.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

An English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan

A Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies, resulting in the f...

William Ellery Channing

William Ellery Channing

The foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States and one of Unitarianism's leading theologians.

Hugo Grotius

A Dutch philosopher who escaped from Loevestein Castle by hiding in a chest of books that was tra...

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Babbage and Lovelace

Babbage and Lovelace

futurelearn.com

In this step, we’re going to look at two of the earliest pioneers of Computer Science: Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace. You’ll learn about their pioneering work in trying to design, build and program what could have been the world’s first computer.Charles Babbage was a 19th century British mathematician, engineer and inventor. During this period, to calculate the result of a particular mathematical function, one would use a mathematical table. For instance, if you wanted to find the sine of 100, you would use a table that provided all the results of sine calculations from 0 up to 36...

What's so Funny About Lucian the Syrian?

What's so Funny About Lucian the Syrian?

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A world-renowned satirist who wrote in Greek in the second-century Roman Empire, he left an indelible mark on the literature of the West. He gave us “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and what many call the first science fiction novel—a tale about a bizarre journey to the Moon. His works influenced countless writers and other artists of subsequent centuries, including Michelangelo, Erasmus, Thomas More, Goethe, Shakespeare, Kepler, Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, Jules Verne and more, up to today.Lucian the Syrian, or Lucian of Samosata, is thought to have written about 70 surviving works, a majo...

Cancer's conceptions of Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771-1802), founder of histology.

Cancer's conceptions of Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771-1802), founder of histology.

The French doctor Bichat had a brief but outstanding career. Although the training of Bichat was exclusively that of a surgeon, his scientific interests embraced all of medicine, especially descriptive anatomy, histology, pathological anatomy and histopathology. His important contribution was to point out that organs were not homogeneous structures but were composed of different tissues....

The society of mind: Marvin Minsky

The society of mind: Marvin Minsky

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Artificial intelligence is fundamentally an engineering discipline; our collective goal of constructing an intelligent artifact is fundamentally an engineering one. Good engineering builds on good science. Good science, quite frequently, builds on good mathematics.The Society of Mind does not pretend to be good engineering or good mathematics. My aim in this review is to discuss the question of whether or not it is good science.I will do this by examining two separate but related issues. The first involves Minsky's abandonment of the usual methods of scientific inquiry and a d...

Babbage and Lovelace

What's so Funny About Lucian the Syrian?

Cancer's conceptions of Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771-1802), founder of histology.

The society of mind: Marvin Minsky

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Stats pioneer Bill James: Don’t blame us for boring baseball

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Stats pioneer Bill James: Don’t blame us for boring baseball

BOSTON (AP) — The analytics crowd isn’t accepting blame for baseball’s big slowdown.“I plead not guilty,” statistics pioneer Bill James said on Friday. “I don’t have nothin’ to do with this.”As baseball games get longer and less action-packed, the sport has been looking for ways to ...

Louis Pasteur, from crystals of life to vaccination

Chemistry

Louis Pasteur, from crystals of life to vaccination

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) is an exceptional scientist who opened a new era in medicine and biology. Starting from studies on crystals of by-products of wine fermentation, he first defined a distinct chemistry between dead and living matters. He then showed the role of living microbes in the ferme...

Conversation with Chen-Ning Yang: reminiscence and reflection

Physics

Conversation with Chen-Ning Yang: reminiscence and reflection

Chao: Let’s start with Yang–Mills theory. Among the many important contributions you made, people consider Yang–Mills theory to be the most important. Do you agree? Why do you think it is so important?Yang: In the field of basic theoretical physics, it is generally believed that Yang–Mills...