Monthly Archives: October 2015

But so far, the few who have understood the work have struggled to explain it to anyone else. […] The situation, he says, reminds him of the Monty Python skit about a writer who jots down the world’s funniest joke. Anyone who reads it dies from laughing and can never relate it to anyone else.

The biggest mystery in mathematics: Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof : Nature News & Comment

feltron:

Mapping Neighborhoods in Boston and San Francisco.

ponctuel:

Image taken from page 1009 of
‘La Terra, trattato popolare di geografia universale per G. Marinelli ed
altri scienziati italiani, etc. [With illustrations and maps.]’