A Mathematician Who Makes the Best of Things
Alessio Figalli studies optimal transport, a field of math that ranges from the movements of clouds to the workings of ...
Morningstar26d
24 Medal of Honor recipients to be honored at Veterans Inaugural Ball - Salute to Heroes
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Legion, the nation's largest veterans service organization, will proudly honor two dozen Medal of Honor recipients at Monday's Veterans ...
Chicago Tribune29d
A rare gold medal from the 1904 St. Louis Olympics sells for $545,371 at auction
BOSTON — A gold medal awarded at the first Olympics hosted on U.S. soil was sold at auction for over half a million dollars, part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia from the Games over the ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch28d
A rare gold medal from 1904 St. Louis Olympics sells for $545,371 at auction
Cancel anytime. This Nov. 2024 image provided by RR Auction shows a rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics at the intake office of RR Auction, in Amherst, N.H. BOSTON — A gold medal awarded at ...
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Two professors, four alumni elected to National Academy of Engineering
Six Princetonians have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering: Professor Philip John Holmes, Professor Lynn Loo, ...
Sports Illustrated29d
Rare 1904 Olympic Gold Medal Reaches $545,000 At Auction
A rare 1904 Olympic gold medal from the St. Louis Games. / RR Auction A gold medal handed out at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis sold for a staggering $545,371, making it the third-highest ...
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Mathematician explains the trick of the “envelope system”, the formula for saving more than $2,500 a year
This method, recently popularized by the mathematician Santi García Cremades through a TikTok video, is based on a basic but powerful mathematical formula. According to Cremades, you don’t need ...
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Scientists review Arabic manuscript containing lost works of Apollonius and shed light on Islamic scientific tradition
Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient world as "The Great Geometer," have survived in an Arabic manuscript ...
Newsweek28d
Ukrainian Soldier Killed in Hand-to-Hand Battle Awarded Posthumous Medal
On Friday, Zelensky awarded a posthumous medal to a Ukrainian soldier who died... A soldier stands in front of The Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine on January 16, 2025, in Kyiv ...
Brain Teaser: Channel Your Inner Srinivasa Ramanujan – Spot the Odd Number in Just 9 Seconds!
Brainteasers are more than just riddles wrapped in a package. They're a mental gym, a challenging playground where you can ...
The New York Times26d
Paris Olympics Medals Are Tarnishing, Putting LVMH in the Spotlight
“Crocodile skin,” Mr. Secchi wrote. Nick Itkin, a U.S. Olympic foil fencer, said his bronze medal started to deteriorate a few days after the Olympics. “But after like a few weeks, it got ...
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And the gold for the worst Olympic medals goes to ... Paris
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. An Olympic medal should last forever. But since the Paris Olympics finished in August, more than 100 athletes, including six ...