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Alexander Grothendieck, who I also discussed in my review of The Art of Learning , was one of the most productive, generative, and eccentric mathematicians of the 20th century. Grothendieck was also an energetic alien. According to multiple sources, he went through a ten-year period during which he invented (I suspect he would say discovered)
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Adam Mastroianni • Science Will Only End Once We've Licked All the Objects in the Universe
The Dirac equation. The electron cloud. Beta decay. The Fibonacci spiral. Kinematic models, astral planes, Drake’s formula, the molecular structure of MBBA.
Ali Hazelwood • Love Theoretically: From the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis
in the advanced political cultures of the Enlightenment tradition the creation of knowledge can and should be paramount, and the idea that representative government depends on proportionate representation in the legislature is unequivocally a mistake.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
as science digs deeper into the innermost realities of the universe, objective truth seems to break down. The concept in quantum mechanics that particles can behave as either particles or waves, depending on how they are observed, reveals a mixed metaphor hidden at the centre of our physical world.