Mad science, a fair slice, and The Rotherham. It’s World Pizza Day!
South African students continue to perform poorly in subjects like mathematics, with fewer and fewer writing the standard maths curriculum.
The latest figures show that the country is failing to deliver a decent mathematics education to learners, and the consequences are far-reaching.
Grigori Perelman famously solved the Poincare Conjecture in 2006. The remaining six problems so important that solving any one of them would make you rich.
He might have gained worldwide fame following 2001’s ‘A Beautiful Mind’, but for those in the know John Nash had already been a superstar for years.
Wouldn’t it be cool if all the iPhones ever sold were joined together to make a giant screen? Indeed it would and that is excatly what Josh Orter has done. Orter is the maths genius behind the website Stupid Calculations. Introducing the Monophone.
Russian historian, Andrei Lankov lived in Pyongyang in the 1980’s, where he was an exchange student. His forthcoming book takes a look at how the government established a tight grip on the lives of everyday North Koreans. Take, for example, these anti-US questions cited by Lankov in a North Korean student textbook.