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Mark Ronan

Eureka moments in Syracuse
In a charming Sicilian museum you can test the theories of antiquity’s greatest mathematician
Mark Ronan

Brotherly and sisterly love
André and Simone Weil were two sides of the same coin: impatient; determined; brilliant; attracted to ancient wisdom and ideas
Mark Ronan

Brought to book
Mathematics publishing is a soft touch. The publisher usually hasn’t a clue, so they send the manuscript to someone like me to comment on. I used to be a soft touch too
Mark Ronan

Playing the numbers game
Mark Spiegelhalter's book helps explain how implausible statistical nonsense arises in the first place
Mark Ronan

Civilisation made concrete
The ancient Assyrians deserve to be remembered for being pioneering builders and engineers
Mark Ronan

Is this the real life or just fantasy?
It may not be possible to know if we are living in a simulation — but perhaps we don’t need certainty
Mark Ronan

Escaping the Moscow ghetto
How a brilliant young Russian mathematician was blocked by blatant Soviet anti-Semitism
Mark Ronan

Opera’s summer in the country
This year’s rural festivals provided a feast of productions of works outside the main repertoire
Mark Ronan

The heroes who came up with zero
‘Arabic’ numerals came to Europe from India — but ancient Sumerians invented them
Mark Ronan

An Italian take on time and space
Events in the quantum world do not form an orderly queue but crowd around in a chaotic fashion
Mark Ronan

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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