Beyond Euclid #183

Welcome to Beyond Euclid #183, the newsletter for the best mathematics and science stuff of the week. I am Ali, and I curate cool math and science stuff every week to help you have a better week.

First of all, I owe you an apology for this week's newsletter being a day late. Summer just made me a bit slow.

My perspective on life took a profound shift during a two-week vacation, especially after visiting a small town towards the end of Massachusetts called Cohasset. It was a place of simple, tiny, and colorful houses and streets, where noise was a foreign concept. After satisfying our hunger, we began to wander through the town and stumbled upon a small museum.

What was once an abandoned ruin just a few years ago had been collectively transformed by the townspeople into a maritime museum. It exclusively displayed artifacts belonging to mariners who had lived only in that town, and volunteers took turns working there, with no admission fee.

We spent a full two hours exploring the museum. I learned incredible things about maritime history, but that's not the point. The point is that in a world where everything and everyone's lives are constantly changing, there was still this one …