The Heart & Mind Behind a Revolution: Book Review of “Boltzmann’s Atom”
I have a habit of wandering around public libraries until a book catches my eye. I do this frequently enough that if you were to plot the book titles I […]
Author Archives: Leo Kozachkov
The Importance of Science Literacy – Even for Scientists!
Why is a public understanding of science important? It’s tempting to say: “how could it not be important, it’s science! The coolest thing in the world! Everything runs on science!”, […]
Darwin vs. Newton: A Poem
Of all the scientists to come, alive, or dead On the list of contributions, two names march ahead Newton and Darwin, forever supreme Best minds to roam Earth, lovely and […]
Beautiful & Simple Math: An Adventure into the Infinite and the Irrational
This article is a semi-continuation of my previous post regarding the sordid state of Rutgers University’s ‘Liberal Arts Math’ curriculum. Since people seemed to like it, I thought I’d switch […]
Math & the Liberal Arts Education at Rutgers University
Introductory-level mathematics education is a festering wart on this country’s nose. More locally, Rutgers—a university which touts some of the best researchers in applied mathematics, as well as a top-twenty […]
Meeting The Mayans: Applied Sentience Goes to Mexico
Getting There The road from Cancun to Chichen Itza—home of El Castillo, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World—is not made of dirt; it is not dilapidated, pot-hole ridden, […]
Will Hitler be Remembered as a 20th Century Genghis Khan?
The polls are in, historians, statisticians, and ancient scroll all agree: under the leadership of Genghis Khan, the Mongolian army killed around 40 million people, an estimated 10% of the […]
Popular Science is Garbage… and Math is To Blame
The holy grail of amateur linguistics is the construction of a language which is both “maximally precise” and “maximally concise”—in other words, packing more information into fewer symbols; in other, other words, […]
The Scientist’s Worst Nightmare: A Poem
Captured and shackled by the Devils of Night a tattered rag on my eyelids to cut off the light a spear in my side, crude instructions to walk I try […]
Playing the Godgame in Greece: Book Review of John Fowles’ “The Magus”
Happily nestled between spot 92 and 94 on the Modern Library’s list of 100 Best Novels, The Magus by John Fowles is a disorienting psychological thriller detailing the misadventures of […]
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