Grace Chisholm Young, mathematician and ‘wife’ – 10/01/2024 – Marcelo Viana
Grace Chisholm (1868–1944) studied mathematics with William Young (1863–1942) at Cambridge University. He then went to the University of Göttingen,...
First World War
Grace Chisholm Young, mathematician and ‘wife’ – 10/01/2024 – Marcelo Viana
Grace Chisholm (1868–1944) studied mathematics with William Young (1863–1942) at Cambridge University. He then went to the University of Göttingen,...
Brazil in the long term – 12/23/2023 – Samuel Pessôa
On Wednesday last week (20), I participated in the long-term panel at the 51st meeting of Anpec (National Association of...
The sad story of Kluge Hans, the horse that calculated – 12/19/2023 – Marcelo Viana
Some 120 years ago, one of the biggest celebrities in world science was Kluge Hans (John Smart, in German), the...
The sad story of Kluge Hans, the horse that calculated – 12/19/2023 – Marcelo Viana
Some 120 years ago, one of the biggest celebrities in world science was Kluge Hans (John Smart, in German), the...
Einstein, Freud, war and chimpanzees – 11/09/2023 – Marcos Augusto Gonçalves
In 1932, the League of Nations invited Albert Einstein, already a giant in physics, to choose a prominent intellectual personality...
