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Cantor’s Diagonalization Method
Alexander Kharazishvili
Mathematician Alexander Kharazishvili explores how powerful the celebrated diagonal method is for general and descriptive set theory, recursion theory, and Gödel’s incompleteness theorem.
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Two Experiments in Abiogenesis
James Tour
Two new papers claim to find further support for the RNA World hypothesis and that nucleotide formation and selection may have been robust processes on the prebiotic Earth. James Tour disagrees.
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Reinventing Linguistics – Again
W. Tecumseh Fitch
How to reconcile Noam Chomsky the linguist and philosopher with Chomsky the political critic? In a review of What Kind of Creatures Are We? biologist W. Tecumseh Fitch finds an underlying unity.
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It’s You, Again
Daniel Kleitman
Must there be an infinite number of copies of you, in an infinite number of local universes? Mathematician Daniel Kleitman says no. A review of Max Tegmark’s Our Mathematical Universe.
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Good God!
Luke Barnes
Even an atheist has to believe something. Luke Barnes reviews Sean Carroll’s The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, and his construction of an atheistic worldview.
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Vegetable Rights
Daniel Gelernter
Is human culture in denial of vegetal existence? Daniel Gelernter reviews Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives by Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder.
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Touched by the Goddess
Krishnaswami Alladi
A recent film starring Dev Patel depicts Srinivasa Ramanujan’s mathematical achievements and tragically early death at 32. Number theorist Krishnaswami Alladi reviews The Man Who Knew Infinity.
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On Being a Fish
Bret Weinstein
How are humans fish? In the first of a series on technical nomenclature, evolutionary theorist Bret Weinstein distinguishes clade, taxon, and monophyletic group from functional groupings.
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Lost at Sea
Josh Gelernter
In 1938, the brilliant young theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana dropped off the face of the earth. Josh Gelernter explores his foundational work and mysterious disappearance.
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