If I had a world of my own…

In the clas­si­fied sec­tion of a daily news­pa­per an advert­ise­ment reads: “Old prob­lem look­ing for a way out”. If I find a solu­tion to that old prob­lem, do I become part of the “cre­at­ive” group of humans? If I spend time and energy, elab­or­at­ing this new solu­tion and then stop, will I have reached my goal? I would think not. The answer I have […]


Motivated by…

In a coun­try where people are motiv­ated by greed, driv­en by ambi­tion and led by instincts, some stand power­less. We take our val­ues from cor­rupt politi­cians, enshrined by ‘vir­tue’, or should I say shrouded by ‘vir­tue’ which stench fills nos­trils and per­meates beings. We observe, ana­lyse and deduct like Winston Smith (1984) and are unable to act […]


Motivés par…

Dans un pays où les hommes sont motivés par leur avid­ité, con­duits par leur ambi­tion et menés par leurs instincts, nous demeur­ons impuis­sants. Nous puis­ons nos valeurs chez des politi­ciens cor­rompus, baignant dans leur halo de ‘vertu’, (dans leur linceul, plutôt) dont la puanteur sat­ure les nar­ines et cor­rompt les êtres. Nous observons, ana­lyso­ns et […]


MY HERO: EVARISTE GALOIS BY ANDREW MILLER

“His collected work runs to only 60 pages but is brimful of ideas that mathematicians today still feed off profitably” The Guardian Newspaper – January 20th, 2012 Galois was to mathematics what Arthur Rimbaud, a generation later, was to poetry. He was born in a small town south of Paris in 1811. His family were highly political, […]