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Mark Ronan

Standing The Test Of Spacetime
The greatest scientists, such as Einstein, often made their greatest discoveries by thought experiments
Mark Ronan

Glorious Summer
When it comes to summer festival opera, Britain tends to get it right
Mark Ronan

Fiddler And The Proof
There is a link between a great Jewish musical and the search for a historic mathematical proof
Mark Ronan

The Ultimate Space Explorer
Alexander Grothendieck was a genius who reshaped mathematics but then withdrew from society
Mark Ronan

The Prime Numbers Have It
New mathematics prizes show the public that the subject is constantly renewing itself with new ideas

Mark Ronan

High pressure
A new play shows how weather forecasting affected the Normandy landings
Mark Ronan

Antediluvian Ark
An extraordinary cuneiform tablet has provided a mine of information about pre-biblical flood legends
Mark Ronan

Overrated: Ptolemy
The Egyptian astronomer's dubious methods dominated the science for over a millennium
Mark Ronan

Underrated: Tycho Brahe
This great Danish astronomer made a heliocentric theory credible
Mark Ronan

Wotan’s Trolley
After a request to exchange a shopping trolley in Germany was lost in translation, I now know the eurozone must fail
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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