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Rate our Alan Turing Caricature

Friday, January 21st, 2011

Tell us what you think of our caricature of British mathematician Alan Turing. We'd love to get your feedback.

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Alan Turing, the man who taught computers to think

Monday, July 5th, 2010
<p>Information Pioneers: Alan Turing from Information Pioneers on Vimeo.</p>

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WSJ – Gathering for Gardner

Sunday, April 4th, 2010

Homage to the iconic author of Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" column

Last Saturday afternoon, on a Japanese-landscaped hillside at the outskirts of Atlanta, several clusters of people were constructing mathematically inspired sculptures of metal, bamboo and balloons. Nearby, a magician showed a mathematician how to "throw" a knot. Others had their photographs taken in an optical illusion they had built, an "impossible box" that from one perspective made people look simultaneously behind and inside it. Around a goldfish pond, groups did puzzles, origami, juggling and card tricks. A magician, a philosopher and a software engineer argued about Wittgenstein. Read more…

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Dangerous Knowledge

Monday, January 25th, 2010

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Shaking Up Foundations of Math: Roger Penrose on Kurt Gödel’s Groundbreaking Work

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Best known for his Incompleteness Theorem, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) is considered one of the most important mathematicians and logicians of the 20th century. By showing that the establishment of a set of axioms encompassing all of mathematics would never succeed, he revolutionized the world of mathematics, logic and philosophy. Read more…

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