Once upon a time, there was a young German man called Paul Wolfskehl. Spurned in love by his beautiful intended, he determined to kill himself ( Read more... )

Neatorama has reported on a new Ratio Finder application, developed for Foursquare, which "lets users find check-in locations with the sharpest gender imbalances so that they can go there and, well, presumably flirt and such".


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I like maths, decent puns, jokes I get without resorting to Google (in your XKCD face, Randall Munroe!). Yes.


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Yay the internet. It gives you not only other people curious about vampure-human population controls - the predators need some restraint, else all their food-sources are converts or corpses - but mathematical papers on Vampire Population Ecology.


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In an article pimping the BBC2 transfer of his radio show 'Genius', Dave Gorman was asked to name those coves he felt best suited to that hailing description. One was Paul Erdős...

A fantastic itinerant mathematician of East European extraction, who has published more mathematical papers that are part of the tapestry of maths than almost anyone ( Read more... )