What is the probability of your existence? According to this fun blog post, about 1 in 102,685,000! That is apparently the same probability of 2 million people each rolling a trillion-sided dice and landing on the same number! Now that calculation (despite being thoroughly enjoyable to read) is flawed because of a simple bias… What … Read more
A few days back I found myself sitting in Cafe Noir(an awesome cafe in UB city) having an amazing conversation with a friend. We were discussing a script that I had written and considering it was just the second draft it had a lot of unresolved debatable ideas in it.
To put it in short(without revealing too much of the plot) we were discussing about how machines would behave if they one day could start thinking.
I started reading Fermat’s Last Theorem a few days ago and it has by far been the most gripping non-fiction book I have ever read. This is the second book written by Simon Singh that I have picked up. The Code Book(review) was his other book and I loved it too.
The book is about a mathematical problem that took over 300 years to solve. The ‘last theorem’ is intriguing in itself but what i have enjoyed most about the book so far is the story of Pythagoras and his love for numbers. There is so little I knew about the man who had put forward probably the single most famous theorem in mathematics.