“The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man” — “Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?… Mathematics is, in my opinion, an indivisible whole…” — David Hilbert David Hilbert (1862–1943) was a German mathematician who possessed such diversified knowledge that spanned so many branches of mathematics. Such as, the…

Harnessing the energy inside the atomic nuclei was never inevitable — The general view of science is that it is a rational and systematic endeavor, moving forward in a consistent and cohesive way. However, in reality, science often progresses in an irregular manner, sometimes advancing, sometimes regressing, sometimes through deliberate methods, and other times by chance. The evolution of nuclear energy…

Making Mathematics Beautiful and Bringing Clarity to Complexity — Leslie B. Lamport (born in 1941, in New York) is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made significant contributions to the field of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and scientific writing. He is best known as the initial developer of LaTeX, a widely-used document preparation system that has become…

“Notebook of Things I Don’t Know About” — “Study hard what interests you the most in the most irreverent and original manner possible.” — Richard Feynman Richard Feynman (1918–1988) was a scientific legend, a physicist whose insatiable curiosity and boundless brilliance transformed the field of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He was a master communicator, distilling complex ideas…

“You don’t have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.” — John Forbes Nash Jr. (1928–2015) was an American mathematician whose life is beautifully captured in the blockbuster award-winning biographical drama film named “A Beautiful Mind” in 2001. This movie highlights the story of Nash’s life, from his early days as a brilliant but eccentric student at Princeton to his groundbreaking…

That later set the stage for Einstein’s general theory of relativity — Albert Einstein revolutionized the early conceptions of gravity in 1915 when he presented a theory of general relativity which was based primarily on the fact that mass and energy warp the fabric of four-dimensional spacetime. The credit for its underlying geometric or mathematical formulation goes to a mathematician named Georg…

The first person to quantify the speed of light — “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.” ― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man Early Assumptions The topic of measuring the speed of light had been under debate for many…

“Mathematics so to speak was to be master and physical theory could be made to bow to the master” — “The main interest of physical statistics lies in fact not so much in the distribution of the phenomena in space, but rather in their succession in time.” — Richard von Mises In Newtonian mechanics, space and time were always considered independent of each other. That three-dimensional space — length, width…

How beautiful is the fact that the universe expresses its anomalies in such a spectacular way — The universe offers a bunch of naturally occurring wonders, among which auroras — “The Polar Lights”, stand on the top. …