Antifeuilleton… Got a problem? Vote! (Gonit Sora, 30.03.2016.) 22 Apr 2018 We’ll start with a passage from J.E. Littlewood’s celebrated Mathematician’s Miscellany. “A voting paradox. If a man abstains from voting in a General Election on the ground that the chance…
Antifeuilleton… Is it me, or is “Veto” starting to sound really good (Gonit Sora, 28.03.2016.) 22 Apr 2018 Our heroes from the previous story, Shapley, Shubik and Banzhaf are on a trip today. They’re going to New York, for the United Nations Security Council meeting. This powerful institution…
Antifeuilleton… Power of factions: People’s Front of Judea and Judean People’s Front (Gonit Sora, 13.03.2016.) 22 Apr 2018 Friedrich Nietzsche claims that in the foundation of everything we will find the will to power. Even if we do not completely agree with this claim, most people have it…
Antifeuilleton… Game of trisection (Gonit Sora, 17.02.2016.) 22 Apr 2018 Throughout the centuries, we’ve made a pretty good system for separating normal from abnormal things. OK, it failed miserably from time to time, but sometimes we have quite strong proof…
Antifeuilleton… Secret division plans (Gonit Sora, 25.01.2016.) 22 Apr 2018 The following two antifeuilletons are inspired by an interesting book by Underwood Dudley, “A budget of trisections”. The author studies the phenomenon of people solving the unsolvable – angle trisection…
Antifeuilleton… Fun with flags, take two (Gonit Sora, 12.01.2015.) 22 Apr 201822 Apr 2018 There are two separate motives behind use of flags. First one is marking, and the second one is communication. Although we usually see the first one as a dominant one,…
Antifeuilleton… Mathematician’s flag is deepest space (Gonit Sora, 23.12.2015.) 22 Apr 2018 The man starting our story is Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld. In 1990, Drinfeld was awarded the Fields Medal, the greatest prize for a mathematician. He is mentioned here because of an…
Antifeuilleton… The vacuum is blowing in the wind (Gonit Sora, 17.12.2015.) 22 Apr 2018 Hero of our today’s story is the Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir. And two plates. To make the results surprising, let’s place the plates in vacuum: not a single atom will…
Antifeuilleton… Occupation in 26 dimensions (Gonit Sora, 30.11.2015.) 22 Apr 2018 In the previous antifeuilleton, Engels mentioned two interesting things through his criticism of Dühring: the 1+2+3+4+… series and the question of our world’s dimensionality. It is high time to connect…
Antifeuilleton… Anti-Dühring: 1+2+3+4+… (Gonit Sora, 25.12.2015) 22 Apr 2018 Anti-Dühring is a book by Friedrich Engels published in 1878. It is a defense of Marxism from Eugen Dühring’s vision of socialism. It contains interesting scientific references as well, which…
