Advanced technological civilisations would be impossible without an Aristotle and the host of haphazard historical circumstance that preserved his thought through the ages. Aristotle was the first real scientist. That's because he assumed that in order to understand the world you must observe it, and that all knowledge comes from...
Year: 2014
What? For a phantom we have suffered?
Herodotus says that the gods had the real Helen whisked away and hidden safely in Egypt, while giving a doppelgänger of hers to Paris. That the Trojans and the Greeks had fought over a ghost. Euripides in his tragedy "Helen" picks ups this version of the story and weaves a...
How markets work
[slideshare id=30185921&sc=no] The first deck I produced by Cypsel, my startup, in May 2013 when we kicked off with recruiting beta testers....
10 Equations that rule your life
[slideshare id=29907472&sc=no] I posted this presentation on SlideShare in order to connect everyday experience and mathematics. My intention was to use curiosity in order to present mathematics as relevant to everyday life. By juxtaposing pictures of people and snapshots of mathematical formulas I aimed to suggest semantic pairs where the...