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Are Averages Typical?

Not necessarily, for example the average person has fewer than...

Long multiplication, long division and logarithms are, for many, dim-remembered...

Why do humans sleep? How much do we need to...

Carl Friedrich Gauss one of the greatest mathematicians, is said...

Charlatan "cures" and "alternative" treatments are widespread and popular. Despite...

For 100 years up to the end of the 19th...

This lecture is an exploration of the remarkable consequences of...

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin...

We are familiar with the formula for solving a quadratic...

James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) was one of the most important...