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John Bardeen

An American engineer and physicist. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physic...

Auguste de Marmont

A French general and nobleman who rose to the rank of Marshal of the Empire.

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Matthew Fontaine Maury

An American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist,...

Theon of Alexandria

Theon of Alexandria

A Greek scholar and mathematician who lived in Alexandria, Egypt. He edited and arranged Euclid's...

Jacques Necker

A Genevan banker who served as finance minister for Louis XVI and a statesman

Bu Xiangzhi

A Chinese chess player who became the 10th grandmaster from China at the age of 13 years, 10 mont...

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What's So Great About Franz Schubert? Gregg Whiteside Knows...

What's So Great About Franz Schubert? Gregg Whiteside Knows...

It's so easy to find oneself attracted to the music of Franz Schubert. His unmatched gift for lyricism makes him so approachable, so comprehensible; and we feel ourselves being pulled into his musical world—in my case, at a very early age. But now, with the wisdom of my years, my appreciation for Schubert has deepened. For lying within this musical world of color and melodic beauty is a powerful undertow of mystery, of light and dark, of profundity beyond the years of a young genius who lived only until the age of 31.In January, 2013, to mark the 215th anniversary o...

Kurt Gödel and the mechanization of mathematics

Kurt Gödel and the mechanization of mathematics

Mathematics springs from creative acts of the human imagination; yet at the same time the creativity of the mathematician is constrained by the fact of the matter. It is not up to the mathematician whether there are infinitely many prime numbers – either there are or there aren’t, and thanks to one of Euclid’s theorems, we know that there are; in fact, it is even provable.About provability, much is known. For example, many mathematical proofs can be mechanized, that is, checked by a computer. In fact, one could imagine a completely automated practice, where one could theoretically bu...

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S INVENTIONS

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN’S INVENTIONS

Benjamin Franklin was many things in his lifetime: a printer, a postmaster, an ambassador, an author, a scientist, a Founding Father. Above all, he was an inventor, creating solutions to common problems, innovating new technology, and even making life a little more musical.Despite creating some of the most successful and popular inventions of the modern world, Franklin never patented a single one, believing that they should be shared freely: "That as we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others, we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."Here are some of Benjamin Franklin’s most significant inventions:...

What Jane Austen can teach us about resilience

What Jane Austen can teach us about resilience

Her novels may be mischaracterised as romantic escapism, but at their core, they have a lot to say about perseverance – and it makes them perfect reading for now, writes Heloise Wood.The tumultuous nature of the last year has led each of us to find our own particular cultural coping mechanisms. One of the key ones for me has been reading the novels of Jane Austen. After writing her work off in my younger days as simpering and convoluted, featuring heroines with whom I could never empathise, I have now found myself drawn to her work in a way I never have been before.Sales figures would suggest I'm far from the only one relying on her humour and heart to get me through these strange days. In the UK, as Kiera O'Brien, charts and data editor of the Bookseller, notes, Austen experienced a sales rise of 20% in the UK between 15 June and 7 November last year, compared to the same period in 2019. Last December saw the 245th anniversary of her birth and her popularity only seems to be getting stronger....

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The Poisoned Will of Jean Meslier

Religion

The Poisoned Will of Jean Meslier

Censorship was extremely rigorous in 18th-century France during the reign of Louis XV. Despite this, copies of a cursed manuscript circulated in deepest secrecy, unknown to the police. Were it discovered, its author would face the death penalty; those who held it in their possession kept it cauti...

The devil’s doctor: Paracelsus and the world of Renaissance magic and science

Medicine

The devil’s doctor: Paracelsus and the world of Renaissance magic and science

Contentious, cantankerous, and sometimes self contradictory, the peripatetic Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus, was arguably the prototype of the physician-scientist. Born in a Swiss hamlet in 1493, his brief life spanned a period of seismic change in religion, poli...

Struggling and Searching? Lessons from Leo Tolstoy

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Struggling and Searching? Lessons from Leo Tolstoy

Perhaps you’ve experienced this “painful feeling” of losing your faith, of seeking meaning in life and not knowing where to turn. Even if you haven’t, it’s likely you’ve known someone who has. The great novelist Leo Tostoy had his own spiritual crisis, vividly recounted in his spiritual autobiogr...