An unusual approach
network is frequently found in popular science texts in very basic level, strict or articles that often become very difficult to read: for "too much math" or because the details deepened by losing the overview.
For a self-taught like me, the two kinds of the above items are a little 'frustrating: I just happen to read things that I already know, or I run into articles that are very tricky for their difficulties.
My passion for science is now going on for several decades, and increasingly I am struck by the intellectual greatness of the people that have been explored. It brings to mind names like Galileo or Newton, but also less known as Thomas Young or Otto von Guericke. I find especially interesting interactions between these characters, and discover how certain ideas have developed over time, sometimes over several centuries.
I write my articles favoring the way I enjoy science: trying to add rigor to the completeness, the historical background to the presentation of the major characters. But without advancing in math too: only the bare minimum!
Aldo Benedetti Cavini
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History of topics
July 22, 2010: An overview of set theory, with particular reference to infinite sets, the transfinite numbers and the continuum hypothesis. Do not miss the historical information!
July 19, 2010: The necklace of Democritus . That is: how small an atom?
July 16, 2010: a history of ' arithmetic, from antiquity to the discovery of irrational numbers and complex. This story was supplemented with an explanation of logarithms and their use of the most striking: the slide rule.
July 5, 2010: a systematic exposition of the 'classical optics and phenomena related to light, from the ancient myths to an end to the discoveries of the early nineteenth century. For the moment I do not relay in electromagnetism and modern theories such as relativity or quantum theory, which also should mention: will the subject of future publications.
