A Survey of the Fifteen Most Famous Transcendental Numbers, Explained
TL;DR A roundup by Cliff Pickover lists fifteen well-known transcendental numbers, explains their constructions and historical proofs, and flags several…
Riemann’s Manifold: The Idea That Reframed Mathematics’ View of Space
TL;DR In a mid-19th century lecture, Bernhard Riemann introduced the concept of a manifold — a space that looks Euclidean…
A Century of Noether’s Theorem: Symmetry, Conservation and Legacy
TL;DR Chris Quigg’s colloquium-based essay revisits Emmy Noether’s 1918 result that links symmetries to conservation laws and surveys its far-reaching…