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A few weeks ago I was listening to one of my favorite radio shows, BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. It's about as adult-contemporary as a podcast gets: a roundtable of British academics talking about one ...

Dr. Norbert Wiener, world-renowned scientist, who was considered the father of automation–the son of a Russian-born Jewish peddler who himself rose to become the first professor of Slavonic languages ...

If you want to know when mathematicians are about to have a breakthrough, you don’t need to look inside their heads. Just watch their movements at a chalkboard. “I’ve always been super intrigued by ...

One effective way to identify future mathematicians and scientists would be to give the SAT to middle school students, a study suggests. An abstract of “Tracking Exceptional Human Capital Over Two ...