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De divina proportione
As a mathematician, I often wonder if life would have been easier were I born 2,400 years ago. Back then, all you had to do to become eternally famous was to show that ( I am looking at you Πυθαγόρα!)...
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That’s right, I did say, “A High Fashion Shoot for Geeks”!
Of course they aren’t geeks! That was it…the whole purpose was to crack the image of the so-called “geek”. Having known that, since I was a Caltech alum turned filmmaker, I would get the stereotype and...
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Remembering Arthur Wightman
Arthur Wightman Arthur Wightman passed away this past January, at age 90. He was one of the great mathematical physicists of the past century. Two of Arthur’s most renowned students, Arthur Jaffe and...
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Post-Quantum Cryptography
As an undergraduate, I took Introduction to Algorithms from Ron Rivest. One of the topics he taught was the RSA public-key cryptosystem which he had created with Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. At the...
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Largest prime number found?
Over the past few months, I have been inundated with tweets about the largest prime number ever found. That number, according to Nature News, is . This is certainly a very large prime number and one...
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