I was always sceptic about the peer-review system of the scientific papers and recently I witnessed a discussion about this topic in a mail-list and one of the member of this list sent the Simona Santini’s paper: “We are sorry to inform you” This paper includes rejection letters of the reviewers of the famous computer [...]
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The Nightfall
This is another great short story (but longer than the others), by Asimov. He wrote this short story in 1941 when he was 21 years old and got 15 dollars as a reward from “Astounding Science Fiction” Magazine:). Nightfall If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and [...]
The Last Answer
Here comes the second short story of Isaac Asimov: Note: This short story is taken from here. The Last Answer by Isaac Asimov — © 1980 Murray Templeton was forty-five years old, in the prime of life, and with all parts of his body in perfect working order except for certain key portions of his [...]
The Last Question
Beside being a genius, “Isaac Asimov” was surely one of the most fascinating science fiction author of his age. He had written many good novels like Robot and Foundation series. But beside his novels, he had written many thought provoking short stories as well. “The Last Question” was one of them. About this short story, [...]
An Intuitional Perspective on Dimensions and Dimensionality in Geometry
Mathematical objects with dimensions higher than 3 are usually hard to grasp both visually and geometrically. There are some funny jokes about it too. I want to share here one of them: An engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician are discussing how to visualize four dimensions: Engineer: I never really get it… Physicist: Oh it’s [...]
Infinite regress
Infinite regress, is a very interesting and fun to play with kind of a topic. Let’s look at the Wikipedia definition of infinite regress: An infinite regress in a series of propositions arises if the truth of proposition P1 requires the support of proposition P2, and for any proposition in the series Pn, the truth [...]
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