In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...
In October 1939, as Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were plunging the world into war, an American educational reformer named Abraham Flexner published an essay in Harper's Magazine under the marvelous ...
How a chemical in lizard spit inspired one of the most important medical advancements. Our lizard friend the Gila monster probably has no idea that a chemical in its spit inspired one of the most ...
In Anton Chekhov’s famous play, The Three Sisters, Masha, one of the sisters, complains that knowing three languages is a needless luxury in a small, unsophisticated town. She compares it to something ...
IN conversation with a learned friend lately, our talk ran on various definitions of culture, and on the fact that for one reason or another we found them all unsatisfactory. This led us to ponder the ...
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