Beyond Euclid - Issue #27
Welcome to issue #27 of Beyond Euclid, the newsletter for the best mathematics and science stuff of the week. I am Ali, and every week I curate cool articles, videos, movies, and resources to help you have a better week! Here is the good stuff for the second week of May 2022.
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Watch
La habitación de Fermat
I always trust Spanish thrillers, cause for me, it’s a different and exceptional approach to mystery, having seen other relative movies. I believe this one is one of the genre’s best films and enjoyable. It doesn’t include any horror; however, it creates panic in the viewer, watching the suspicions and thinking of the prime actors. And the entire plot is so interesting and mysterious simultaneously, as it is based on mathematics. The good point is that you can’t really understand what happened until the end. I think it’s a very nice choice if you want to watch a good movie.
Stereoscopy for Kandinsky
Stereoscopy for Kandinsky is a beautiful animation that takes you on a journey through Kandinsky’s abstract visual language.
Kandinsky believed that art should strive to be as abstract as music to be effective. Art that was free of any references to the tangible world was his goal, and he worked hard to achieve it. He believed that the way colors and lines were organized in a painting might convey feelings to the viewer. Musical tones were related to specific colors in his mind, and he regarded color to have an extremely potent spiritual significance.”
Alfred Imageworks has created an animation that takes you on a journey through Kandinsky’s abstract visual language.
Read
What Is Life?: The Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schrödinger by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
This book reveals the ongoing contributions of Erwin Schrödinger’s thoughts and unfolds its controversial potential. It should be in your library!
“Philosophy is the art of asking questions that come naturally to children using methods that come naturally to lawyers.” - David Hills
David Hills is an associate professor of philosophy at Standford University. His apt observation prompts a very personal observation, one offered by a philosopher/lawyer who is now fortunate to have many economists/lawyers as colleagues.
Why Software Projects Take Longer Than You Think: A Statistical Model
Anyone who built software for a while knows that estimating how long something is going to take is hard. It’s hard to come up with an unbiased estimate of how long something will take when fundamentally the work in itself is about solving something. One pet theory I’ve had for a really long time is that some of this is really just a statistical artifact.
You can read the rest of Erik Bernhardsson‘s interesting article here…
Good News of the Week
The Amazon Kindle will support EPUB in late 2022.
Amazon has announced that all of the modern Kindle e-readers will support the most popular ebook format in the world, EPUB. The company recently updated its Send to Kindle documentation and stated that it will add support for EPUB later this year. Send to Kindle will suspend the ability to load in MOBI, since it is an older file format and won’t support the newest Kindle features for documents. If you have MOBI books already on your Kindle, they will continue to be accessible.
Projects
Pocket
Pocket, previously known as Read It Later, is an application and web service for managing a reading list of articles and videos from the Internet. When you find something you want to view later, put it in Pocket. You can capture the content that comes at you all day long and curate your own space filled with only the topics you care about. Save the latest stories, articles, news, sports, and videos from any device and any publisher or app. Then fuel your mind with a reading, watching, and listening experience designed for calm eyes, free hands, and a new focus.
Pretty Interesting...
Probably, this is the most interesting prime number! There are 1000 digits!
Solve the Riddle.
An unknown number is divisible by just four numbers from the set {6, 15, 20, 21, 70}. Determine which ones? [ali@abakcus.com]
Last week, Jay Traverse, Claudio Brandy, and Davide Del Vecchio solved the riddle! Thank you for sharing solutions, folks!