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Pierre Gassendi

A French philosopher, Catholic priest, astronomer, and mathematician.

Herbert George Wells

An English writer who is one of the best-known sci-fi authors of the 20th century.

Alan Guth

An American theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

Jascha Heifetz

A Russian-American violinist who was a child virtuoso and one of the leading violinists of the 20...

Rudolf Virchow

A German physician, anthropologist, pathologist, prehistorian, biologist, writer, editor, and pol...

Michelangelo

An Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance who is one of the most r...

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Setting it straight with curved space

Setting it straight with curved space

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann ushered in a new era of geometry on June 10, 1854, when he delivered his classic lecture “On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Foundations of Geometry”. Join A.S.Ganesh as he unravels the tale of how a shy and timid person with fantastic mathematical ability laid the groundwork for curved surfaces and higher dimensions...Our understanding of the universe was overhauled in a period of 10 years from 1905-1915 when German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein gave us his special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity. His descriptio...

Who Is Epictetus? From Slave To World's Most Sought After Philosopher

Who Is Epictetus? From Slave To World's Most Sought After Philosopher

Part of what makes Stoicism fascinating to study is that three of its most well-known practitioners ranged widely in terms of where they stood in society. Think of Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of the Roman Empire holding one of the most powerful positions in the world. Think of Seneca, who was an adviser to an emperor, renowned playwright and one of the richest people in the Roman Empire. And then there is Epictetus, on the complete opposite, who was born as a slave. That’s what makes Stoicism so powerful: it can provide timeless principles to help us in both good and bad fortune, no matter...

The Optimistic Science of Leibniz

The Optimistic Science of Leibniz

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The philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is chiefly remembered today, when he is remembered at all, for two reasons. First, he invented the calculus — independently, most scholars now agree, of its other inventor Newton. And second, he authored the provocative statement that this world is “the best of all possible worlds.” This claim was famously lampooned in Voltaire’s 1759 satire Candide, in which the title character, “stunned, stupefied, despairing, bleeding, trembling, said to himself: — If this is the best of all possible worlds, what are the others like?” Leibniz’s posthu...

Hermann Staudinger—Founder of Polymer Chemistry

Hermann Staudinger—Founder of Polymer Chemistry

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Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, showed that macromolecules form long chainlike structures (polymers) by chemical interaction and not by physical aggregation. He also suggested that linear molecules can be synthesized by various processes and maintain their unique features. Thus, he provided the framework for the development of many of the processes used in the manufacture of high-polymer synthetics, including rubber, cellulose, and plastics. For this, he is called the “founder of polymer chemistry” and received the 1953 Nobel Prize for chemistry. After World War II (1939-1945), his pion...

Setting it straight with curved space

Who Is Epictetus? From Slave To World's Most Sought After Philosopher

The Optimistic Science of Leibniz

Hermann Staudinger—Founder of Polymer Chemistry

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Using Marcel Duchamp: The Concept of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art *

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Using Marcel Duchamp: The Concept of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art *

In a 1961 interview with Katherine Kuh, Marcel Duchamp, when asked about his readymades, let it be known that the concept behind those objects might be “the most important single idea to come out of my work.” In June 1967, the self-proclaimed “an-artist” - anticipating his final departure a mere ...

The Idiot as Artist: The Fantasy Boats of James Henry Pullen

Art

The Idiot as Artist: The Fantasy Boats of James Henry Pullen

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Great Eastern, nearly 700 feet long and over 100 feet wide, was designed to carry 4,000 passengers from London to Bombay without stopping. Launched in 1859, the ship exemplified the Victorian fascination with technology. The Illustrated London News reminded readers that ...

Charlemagne: Creating the Myth

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Charlemagne: Creating the Myth

In the later Middle Ages, England found itself entangled in a long and bitter war with France known as the Hundred Years' War. So why did English writers at the time choose to celebrate the story of Charlemagne, king of the Franks from 768 to 814?When historical figures are able to captiva...