Beyond Euclid #212
Welcome to Beyond Euclid #212, 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.
Hello from Beyond Euclid 212. Think about it. We have historical mathematicians who were called crazy just for proving that infinity comes in different sizes. Meanwhile today, we have “publishers” using AI to spit out 9,000 fake books in a single year just to milk government funds. We have incredibly complex digital anonymity shields on the dark web being completely shattered by an ordinary, unpainted brick wall. And while politicians endlessly debate the future of the global economy, an entire nation is quietly fading away, losing nearly a million people in a single year simply because its population stopped having kids.
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