Mathematics

V V: A Polymath`s library (Business Standard India)

4 Jul 2008

Travelling through time with libraries. All reading for pleasure is escape whether it is Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Marxism, The Diary of a Nobody or plain simple soft porn. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob and a juvenile in the art of living a life of the mind.

Before Microsoft, Gates Solved A Pancake Problem (NPR)

4 Jul 2008

Morning Edition , July 4, 2008 · Before Bill Gates became a household name, he went to Harvard. His sophomore year, he was assigned a complicated mathematics problem, which — no surprise — he solved.

Before Microsoft, Gates Solved A Pancake Problem (NPR)

4 Jul 2008

Before Bill Gates became a household name, he went to Harvard. His sophomore year, he was assigned a complicated mathematics problem, which — no surprise — he solved. His paper on the solution was published, and until recently it remained the best solution to that problem: stacking pancakes.