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Mathematics and Computer Science

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The Satiety Hormone and Stochastic Processes: The 2019 Wolf Prize

Medicine: discoverer of the “satiety hormone”. Architecture: Moshe Safdie, who designed the Yad Vashem Museum

calendar 24.1.2019
reading-time 6 minutes

The First Israeli Computer

We take pride in being “the startup nation”. It all began with the WEIZAC computer at the Weizmann Institute of Science

calendar 5.3.2018
reading-time 7 minutes

The Teacher who Changed Mathematics

Emmy Noether was a prominent mathematician, while overcoming discrimination and persecution

calendar 14.12.2017
reading-time 8 minutes

Why can’t you divide a certain number by zero?

Why can’t you divide a certain number by zero? Supposedly, the meaning of dividing by zero is that you do not divide the number (you “divide” it to 0 sets…) and so the result should be the same as the number divided?

calendar 9.5.2015
reading-time 2 minutes

How Can We Estimate Enormous Numbers?

How many piano tuners are there in Chicago? How can we find an answer as close as possible to reality without opening a local phone book?

calendar 19.8.2013
reading-time 2 minutes