Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924), generally known as Giacomo Puccini, was an Italian composer whose operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.[n 1] Puccini has been called "the...
Paul Klee
Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a painter born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered to be a German-Swiss.[a] His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was also a...
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His...
Vassily Vassilyevich Kandinsky
Vassily Vassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the...
Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine
Kevin B. Jones Science is a learning process that involves experimentation, failure and revision — and the science of medicine is no exception. Cancer researcher Kevin B. Jones faces the deep unknowns about surgery and medical care with a simple answer: honesty. In a...
The Munchausen Number
Their specific property is that the sum of their digits raised to themselves is the original number. With the number one, it works spectacularly and easily well. After that, you're in trouble. It isn't until you get to 3435 that things put themselves right (try it for...
Poppy Ackroyd – Timeless
Film by Ainslie Henderson
Werner Karl Heisenberg
Werner Karl Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key creators of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series of papers with Max Born and Pascual Jordan,...
Ghost Peloton
Ghost Peloton has been nominated for a Bike Design Award. You can rate the work at bit.ly/1p1acI0. Created for the grand depart of the Tour de France 2014 from Yorkshire, Ghost Peloton fuses performance cycling with athletic choreography performed by Phoenix Dance...
π & Fn+2 = Fn+1 + Fn
This wonderful function combines two extraordinary parts of mathematics in this equation. Pi and the Fibonacci numbers. Find out why in the source article. >> Go to Source Article
Projective Geometry
And this is what happens when you include infinity in your geometry ... The crossing of parallel lines. In mathematics, projective geometry is the study of geometric properties that are invariant under projective transformations. This means that, compared to...
GFBS is going strong …
Another wonderful website going for over 2 years now under the sofaDEVE umbrella ... Have a look yourself and check out one of Edinburghs most qualified and interesting builders. Gordon Forsyth Building Services provide a professional and experienced all trades...
Penrose Tiling
A wonderful example where mathematics and art are happily joint. >> Go to Source Article
Eugene Paul “E. P.” Wigner
Eugene Paul "E. P." Wigner (November 17, 1902 – January 1, 1995), was a Hungarian American theoretical physicist and mathematician. He received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963 "for his contributions to the theory of the atomic nucleus and the elementary...
CubeStormer II “The Ultimate Cube Solver”
And I thought Lego is educational ... it's mind blastingly crazy ... good crazy ! Have a look at what RoboticSolutions put together ... >> Play Video
One Hel(vetica) of a Story – I love Typography
Book review from http://ilovetypography.com/ It is hard not to simply gush about Paul Shaw’s Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story. For a life-student and consumer of design history and culture publications, it ticks so many boxes that...
The magic of Fibonacci numbers
Math is logical, functional and just ... awesome. Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin explores hidden properties of that weird and wonderful set of numbers, the Fibonacci series. (And reminds you that mathematics can be inspiring, too!) Using daring displays of algorithmic...
Loading half a billion rows into MySQL
Interesting post on the derwiki blog ... Especially the commenting is quite entertaining! Amazing how ignorance produces patronizing statements (-> Morg). See belwo the top of teh post ... Background We have a legacy system in our production environment that keeps...
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, (9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland and then Princeton, he is associated with the University of Göttingen...
Hilbert’s program
Never forget that even the most solid buildings of thought are supported by sand only ... In mathematics, Hilbert's program, formulated by German mathematician David Hilbert, was a proposed solution to the foundational crisis of mathematics, when early attempts to...