To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically - even algorithmically - from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet, mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuiti[...]
To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically - even algorithmically - from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitiv[...]
In today's unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers - and often blame it when things go wrong. "The Blind Spot" reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by embracing science's inherent ambiguities and paradoxes ca[...]