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Lost in Math, or How we can get (easily) lost in our way to knowledge

[English] [Español] [Esperanto] Whether you are a scientist, an engineer, or just someone trying to break new ground in science or technology, "Lost in Math" is a book worth reading for you. Because Sabine Hossenfelder, a theoretical physicist, is not only talking about particle physics and cosmology in it, but also about the traps and biases to which we are subject in the development of our work, whatever it is, for various reasons. +Info: "Lost in Math" on GoodReads Sabine Hossenfelder on Wikipedia Sabine Hossenfelder's blog Perdidos en las Matemáticas, o Cómo podemos perdernos (fácilmente) en el camino al conocimiento Ya seas un científico, un ingeniero o simplemente alguien tratando de abrir una nueva senda en ciencia o tecnología, "Perdidos en las Matemáticas" es un libro que merece la pena leer. Porque Sabine Hossenfelder, física teórica, no habla solamente sobre física de partículas y cosmología en él, sino también d

A Mathematician's Approach to Life

Some years ago... Ok, ok, let's start over: Many years ago, when I was a Physics student in college, I happened to learn one of the most valuable lessons I've ever learned in life. The last year of my BS in Physics I decided to take some courses in Mathematics. Of course I had studied a lot of Maths in Physics, but we did not use to be as rigorous as mathematicians are. I met this Professor, who taught Abstract Algebra. Knowing that I had almost finished my studies in Physics, he called me to his office one day. «Here,» he said, «I have this problem I want you to solve. Just remember: do not look through books for the solution. You should be able to find it just with what we've learned in class.» Funny as it seemed to me at first, I eventually thought it was something every student in his course would go through. So I went for it. For the next two weeks, I tried every possible way to solve the problem. I used brute force, I broke down the problem into smalle

Welcome to Matematiko!

This will be a blog mainly about Mathematics, as its name suggests ( Matematiko means Mathematics in Esperanto , the international language created in 1887 by the Polish ophthalmologist, linguist and humanist L.L Zamenhof ). Nonetheless, Mathematics is a very large field which encompasses a lot of things: from tiny quarks to vast Universes, passing through small living (supposedly) intelligent creatures crawling on the surface of a pale blue dot and all the thoughts sparkling from their minds, all of this is potentially described by means of Mathematics. And therefore, in a certain way, is Mathematics. So, as we said, this is a blog about Mathematics. That is, about Life, the Universe and Everything . Because─ In the beginning... was Mathematics.