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12th-century Sephardic Jewish rabbi & scholar who is considered to be the greatest Jewish scholar...

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An Italian and American chess player and chess prodigy. He became a grandmaster at the age of 14 ...

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A Swiss mathematician who was a proponent of Leibnizian calculus.

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A Greek politician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, historian, mathematician, and teacher.

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Chess: Anish Giri aiming for rare victory at Wijk while Magnus Carlsen trails

Chess: Anish Giri aiming for rare victory at Wijk while Magnus Carlsen trails

theguardian.com

Anish Giri kept his half point lead at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee as the Netherlands No 1, who has several times narrowly missed first place at the “chess Wimbledon”, maintained his challenge in the event no Dutchman has won since 1985.The 26-year-old overcame a major hurdle when he drew calmly with the black pieces against Magnus Carlsen, ending the last chance of a late surge from the world champion, who is back in sixth place.A surprise new challenge emerged from Giri’s compatriot Jorden van Foreest, 21, who is also unbeaten after 11 of the 13 rounds and who quickly went a pie...

Was Enrico Fermi Really the “Father of the Nuclear Age”?

Was Enrico Fermi Really the “Father of the Nuclear Age”?

smithsonianmag.com

Just over 75 years ago, physicist Enrico Fermi conducted a famous nuclear experiment beneath the University of Chicago’s football field on December 2, 1942. The experiment proved that chain reactions occur and could be used to release the energy of the uranium atom in a sustained way. It also cleared the way for the production of plutonium. A new book by David N. Schwartz, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age, examines the scientist whose breakthrough 75 years ago this month changed the world.As the son of Nobel Prize winning...

Revealed: the violent, thuggish world of the young JS Bach

Revealed: the violent, thuggish world of the young JS Bach

theguardian.com

Johann Sebastian Bach is arguably the greatest of all composers, with the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B Minor among the most sublime masterpieces in classical music. But biographers over the past half century have "sanitised" his life, in the belief that only a saintly man could have written such heavenly music, according to one of the world's leading conductors and foremost interpreters of Bach.After years of research, Sir John Eliot Gardiner says biographers have been so "overawed" by the composer that they have presented a misleading image of the man. They have depicte...

Socrates – a man for our times

Socrates – a man for our times

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Two thousand four hundred years ago, one man tried to discover the meaning of life. His search was so radical, charismatic and counterintuitive that he become famous throughout the Mediterranean. Men – particularly young men – flocked to hear him speak. Some were inspired to imitate his ascetic habits. They wore their hair long, their feet bare, their cloaks torn. He charmed a city; soldiers, prostitutes, merchants, aristocrats – all would come to listen. As Cicero eloquently put it, "He brought philosophy down from the skies."For close on half a century this man was allowed to philo...

Chess: Anish Giri aiming for rare victory at Wijk while Magnus Carlsen trails

Was Enrico Fermi Really the “Father of the Nuclear Age”?

Revealed: the violent, thuggish world of the young JS Bach

Socrates – a man for our times

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Monet's water lilies to star at National Gallery in London

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Monet's water lilies to star at National Gallery in London

Three spectacular water lily paintings by Claude Monet are to be loaned to the National Gallery as part of the first major exhibition exploring the impressionist passion for decorative arts.The water lily paintings are among the most popular in the world with the true showstoppers being th...

Reading Marx in times of COVID-19

Politics

Reading Marx in times of COVID-19

With the help of science, humanity will eventually overcome the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Many theories and philosophies will emerge. Many interpretations will be presented before the people and the governments. But the question is whether the post-COVID 19 world will be the same...

Frege and the origins of model theory in nineteenth century geometry

Mathematics

Frege and the origins of model theory in nineteenth century geometry

Gottlob Frege was arguably the first to establish a formal system of logic in an essentially modern sense. In the course of justifying his logicist thesis, he created a formal language to represent propositions in a perspicuous way and devised deductive systems that enabled him to represent gap-f...