Posted by: cwlh on: 21/06/2009
Browsing in our excellent, local second-hand bookshop a week or so ago I came across a book I should have known but didn’t: The Mathematical Experience (Study Edition) by Davis, Hersh and Marchisotto. Browsing in that book today I came across a theorem I should have known but didn’t: the “pancake theorem”, the two-dimensional version [...]
Posted by: cwlh on: 05/06/2009
I imagine everyone who reads this blog (indeed everyone who can read) has by now heard of the terrible injustice being done to Simon Singh in Britain’s law courts by the British Chiropractic Association. If not, there are plenty of articles about the case on almost every science-based blog and even some of the better [...]
