Revue de presse personnelle

John Conway, the Presenter 2020-04-20
(I wrote this piece for La Recherche. It was translated into French by Philippe PAJOT. You can find this piece and pieces by others at John Horton Conway: a magician of maths disappears.) Unlike many other mathematicians I know, John Conway cared a lot about the way he presented things. For example, in the puzzle […]
Suspicious Activity in the National Emergency Library? No, just the best kind of activity… 2020-04-20
An obsession with Asimov: Steven Cooper’s rapid book borrowing set off alarms at the Internet Archive.Perhaps Steven Cooper’s pulse quickened when he found this ominous email heading in his inbox: Subject: Re: your extensive downloading activity on archive.org For weeks, Cooper, a software engineer in Melbourne, had been checking out ten books at a time […]