« January 2010 | Main | May 2010 »
A lonely man flirts with madness to recover truth—or so it goes in films from Pi to Proof. But where did the figure of the tragic mathematician originate? In Duel at Dawn, historian Amir Alexander pierces the haze that has gathered around great mathematical lives to reveal gloriously complicated men... [pdf] [text]
Robert Pound, a Harvard physicist whose experiments confirmed general relativity and paved the way for magnetic resonance imaging, died on April 12 in Belmont, Mass. He was a tinkerer at heart. One student recalls finding him in the machine shop, turning a piece of metal on the lathe in his bow tie and tweeds... [text]
This page contains all entries posted to Jascha Hoffman in April 2010. They are listed from oldest to newest.
January 2010 is the previous archive.
May 2010 is the next archive.
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.