Indians developed the concept of negative numbers in the 7th century, but Europeans dismissed it until the 17th century, when mathematicians began adopting negative numbers in their work.
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Scientists are melting holes in the bottom of the world, and almost 100 holes melted near the South Pole are now being used as an astronomical observatory.
Astronomers with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory lowered a long string knotted with basketball-sized light detectors into water in each hole soon refreezes. The detectors attached to the strings are sensitive to blue light emitted in the surrounding clear ice. Such light results from fast-moving secondary particles liberated when high-energy neutrinos emitted by powerful processes out in the universe collide with ice molecules. IceCube has now detected many illuminating neutrinos.
Pictured in 2010, one of the last of IceCube's detector strings is lowered into the freezing abyss, making IceCube the largest neutrino detector ever created. In recognition of unprecedented discoveries, it was announced earlier this week that a founding leader of the IceCube Collaboration will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Astronomers with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory lowered a long string knotted with basketball-sized light detectors into water in each hole soon refreezes. The detectors attached to the strings are sensitive to blue light emitted in the surrounding clear ice. Such light results from fast-moving secondary particles liberated when high-energy neutrinos emitted by powerful processes out in the universe collide with ice molecules. IceCube has now detected many illuminating neutrinos.
Pictured in 2010, one of the last of IceCube's detector strings is lowered into the freezing abyss, making IceCube the largest neutrino detector ever created. In recognition of unprecedented discoveries, it was announced earlier this week that a founding leader of the IceCube Collaboration will be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, an American theoretical physicist known for her works in high-energy physics.
At the age of 14, she built her own single-engine airplane and by 16, she was the youngest person to fly a plane she had constructed herself, she graduated from MIT in perfect 5.0 GPA.
She is famously known as "Next Einstein" by media outlets due to her remarkable achievements at such a young age, her research has been cited by Stephen Hawking.
Her work involves complex topics such as quantum gravity, black holes, and the "Celestial Holography Initiative," which aims to unite spacetime with quantum theory.
At the age of 14, she built her own single-engine airplane and by 16, she was the youngest person to fly a plane she had constructed herself, she graduated from MIT in perfect 5.0 GPA.
She is famously known as "Next Einstein" by media outlets due to her remarkable achievements at such a young age, her research has been cited by Stephen Hawking.
Her work involves complex topics such as quantum gravity, black holes, and the "Celestial Holography Initiative," which aims to unite spacetime with quantum theory.
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IndiGo airlines plane got struck by lightning mid air, damaging the plane's nose but the plane landed safely at its destination
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 has been awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
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“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me”
- Isaac Newton
- Isaac Newton
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Nanoparticles are extremely tiny particles with sizes generally ranging between 1 and 100 nanometers in at least one dimension
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As per Cauchy's Integral Formula
If f(z) is analytic inside and on a closed path C, and Zo is any point inside C, then the value of the function at Zo is completely determined by its values on the boundary C
If f(z) is analytic inside and on a closed path C, and Zo is any point inside C, then the value of the function at Zo is completely determined by its values on the boundary C
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Co- Founder & President of OpenAI, Greg Brockman says that OpenAI has made some significant progress on the second Millennium problem.
This will be the second Millennium problem OpenAI has made some progress on after the Navier Stokes Equations
This will be the second Millennium problem OpenAI has made some progress on after the Navier Stokes Equations
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As per the Stoke's Theorem
If F is any continuously differentiable vector point function and S is a surface bounded by a curve c, then
If F is any continuously differentiable vector point function and S is a surface bounded by a curve c, then
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10y old Terence Tao with 72y old Paul Erdős in 1985 in Adelaide, Australia.
During Paul's visit to Adelaide, he discussed mathematical problems with Tao, recognizing his immense potential and encouraging him to pursue mathematics.
In the 1930s, Paul Erdős posed the problem - nce of +1s and -1s must contain subsequences whose sums are arbitrarily large.
80 years later, in 2015, Terence Tao solved the Erdős discrepancy problem, he proved that Erdős's conjecture was wrong and such a sequence cannot be constructed, as the sums will inevitably grow to be arbitrarily large.
During Paul's visit to Adelaide, he discussed mathematical problems with Tao, recognizing his immense potential and encouraging him to pursue mathematics.
In the 1930s, Paul Erdős posed the problem - nce of +1s and -1s must contain subsequences whose sums are arbitrarily large.
80 years later, in 2015, Terence Tao solved the Erdős discrepancy problem, he proved that Erdős's conjecture was wrong and such a sequence cannot be constructed, as the sums will inevitably grow to be arbitrarily large.
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25 Field medalists including Terence Tao have published a warning about the Impacts of AI on mathematics.
This keeps getting better given that not a single AI company cares about such statements, infact they will accelerate their research to solve all remaining problems.
This keeps getting better given that not a single AI company cares about such statements, infact they will accelerate their research to solve all remaining problems.
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Terence Tao, born in 1975 in Adelaide, is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant mathematicians alive today and arguably the smartest person in the world, with a reported IQ of 230.
At age 2, he was teaching 5-year-old children spelling and addition and by age of 21, Tao Princeton University. He soon joined UCLA and became a full professor at age 24.
At age 2, he was teaching 5-year-old children spelling and addition and by age of 21, Tao Princeton University. He soon joined UCLA and became a full professor at age 24.
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Did Anthropic researchers sign a contract requiring them to cause public panic when leaving the company?
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"As I get older, I realize being wrong isn't a bad thing like they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something"
This famous quote was said by the renowned American physicist Richard Feynman.
He received the 1965 Nobel Physics Prize for his fundamental work in QED.
This famous quote was said by the renowned American physicist Richard Feynman.
He received the 1965 Nobel Physics Prize for his fundamental work in QED.
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John Archibald Wheeler, together with Bryce DeWitt, developed the Wheeler–DeWitt equation, often called the "wave function of the universe" in the 1960s.
The primary goal of the equation is to describe the quantum behavior of the gravitational field, essentially creating a niverse" that incorporates both quantum principles and the dynamics of spacetime geometry.
The primary goal of the equation is to describe the quantum behavior of the gravitational field, essentially creating a niverse" that incorporates both quantum principles and the dynamics of spacetime geometry.
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Until the End of Time by physicist Brian Greene
The book explores the history of the universe from the Big Bang to its ultimate dissolution, and how human consciousness searches for meaning within that vast timeline.
The book explores the history of the universe from the Big Bang to its ultimate dissolution, and how human consciousness searches for meaning within that vast timeline.
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“To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me”
- Isaac Newton
- Isaac Newton
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“Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the Earth at the right distance from the Sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.”
― Isaac Newton
― Isaac Newton
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“We are on the wrong track with artificial intelligence”
According to Freeman Dyson's lectures back in 2014, computer scientists should use analogue rather than digital machines to imitate the human brain.
He said that the brain is likely an analogue system, and scientists t with digital machines, says Prof Freeman Dyson, emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
According to Freeman Dyson's lectures back in 2014, computer scientists should use analogue rather than digital machines to imitate the human brain.
He said that the brain is likely an analogue system, and scientists t with digital machines, says Prof Freeman Dyson, emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
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"The First principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool"
- Richard P. Feynman
- Richard P. Feynman
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Mountains may look calm from a distance but these sleeping Giants carry tremendous force that can wipeout entire cities in one night.
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A manuscript of the Līlāvatī, by the Indian mathematician Bhaskara II (1114-1185), written about 1150 CE, is known for presenting mathematical problems in poetic verses, he composed 1,450 verses in Sanskrit covering arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and astronomy.
Given below is as the "peacock and snake" or "peacock and pillar" problem, which uses the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the unknown distance. The Pythagoras theorem was known in India centuries before Pythagoras.
Given below is as the "peacock and snake" or "peacock and pillar" problem, which uses the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the unknown distance. The Pythagoras theorem was known in India centuries before Pythagoras.
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The Lissajous figures are complex curves, or patterns, formed by the combination of two perpendicular simple harmonic motions, and the resulting pattern can be a circle, ellipse, or a complex looping figure based on the frequencies and phase difference between the two signals.
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For a very long time, the Indian subcontinent was an Island.
Around 140 to 120 million years ago, a tectonic rift split India and Madagascar away from Africa.
Around 140 to 120 million years ago, a tectonic rift split India and Madagascar away from Africa.
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“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”
― Alexander Graham Bell
― Alexander Graham Bell
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Oxygen gas was discovered 252 years ago today, independently by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1772 and Joseph Priestley on August 1, 1774, and later named by Antoine Lavoisier.
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Entropy is a measure of randomness, disorder, or the number of ways a system can arrange itself. It represents the natural tendency of everything in the universe to move from an orderly state to a messy, chaotic state.
Low Entropy - A perfectly clean room. It takes active t to put everything in its exact place.
High Entropy - A messy room. There is only one way for a room to be perfectly clean, but there are millions of ways for it to be messy.
Low Entropy - A perfectly clean room. It takes active t to put everything in its exact place.
High Entropy - A messy room. There is only one way for a room to be perfectly clean, but there are millions of ways for it to be messy.
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Hofstadter's Law, a famous, self-referential adage stating that "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law".
This was First coined by the cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter in his 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Gödel, Escher, Braid"
Hofstadter's Law is essentially an extreme, recursive version of the planning fallacy—a cognitive bias that causes people to underestimate the time required to complete a task.
Because the law calls itself by reference, it implies a paradox - no matter how much buffer time or experience you factor into your schedule, your initial estimate will still fall short of the actual time required.
This was First coined by the cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter in his 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Gödel, Escher, Braid"
Hofstadter's Law is essentially an extreme, recursive version of the planning fallacy—a cognitive bias that causes people to underestimate the time required to complete a task.
Because the law calls itself by reference, it implies a paradox - no matter how much buffer time or experience you factor into your schedule, your initial estimate will still fall short of the actual time required.
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