Why Do People Fight?

We, the humans, are all the same. We belong to the same species – Homo sapiens. And tomorrow if some aliens from Planet X decide to invade Planet Earth, I am almost certain that a good portion of the 7 Billion (approximately) population of this Earth will be together on the same side. Then why … Continue reading →

Using Math to Prove God?

This morning I woke up to an email notification that I need to approve a comment on one of my posts. This is the comment from Neural Outlet: “I want to get a collections of the math associated to God: Attribute of infinities , golden ratio as his fingerprint, I think Euler’s Identity is something … Continue reading →

Do Mathematicians Peak In Their Mid 20’s?

A famous mathematician, G. H. Hardy, wrote in his 1940 memoir, A Mathematician’s Apology, “No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man’s game.” For centuries it has been a commonly accepted belief that youth is most important ingredient for greatness in Mathematics. … Continue reading →

Why The Tortoise Never Loses! (Zeno’s Paradoxes)

Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. Almost everything that we know about Zeno is from Plato’s Parmenides. From there we know that he was close to Parmenides (Plato reports the gossip that they were lovers when Zeno was young), and that he wrote a book of paradoxes defending Parmenides’ philosophy. Since his book … Continue reading →