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The Expert at the Card Table. Written and published pseudonymously in 1902, it contained a large section on card cheating techniques followed by an equally large one on card tricks of the era.
Derek DelGaudio • AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies
Pythagoras, as everyone knows, said that “all things are numbers.” This statement, interpreted in a modern way, is logically nonsense, but what he meant was not exactly nonsense. He discovered the importance of numbers in music, and the connection which he established between music and arithmetic survives in the mathematical terms “ harmonic mean”
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
But Feynman’s brilliance was not solely due to his natural cognitive abilities. He relied on a method : a simple technique for seeing the world through the lens of open-ended questions, which he called his “favorite problems.”
fortelabs.com • 12 Favorite Problems: How to Spark Genius With the Power of Open Questions
Srinivasa Ramanujan Was a Genius. Math Is Still Catching Up. | Quanta Magazine
Jordana Cepelewiczquantamagazine.org
