BL. Eternally diminishing returns
With enough time and patience and bananas, can we go as far as we please?
Archive for October, 2006
BK. Bananas and Rockets
A classic puzzle reveals why rockets require so much fuel, even for wee payloads.
BJ. The Most Powerful Force
Albert Einstein is often quoted as saying that compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe. He didn’t really say that, but the sentiment is valid. If you compound more and more frequently, is there a limit on the interest one can earn?
BI. The Shape of the Universe
Jeff Weeks, author of “The Shape of Space”, tells us about the hypersphere, the Poincaré conjecture and the topology of the universe!
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