Pale blue dot
Given the historic New Horizon’s mission to Pluto, I reflected back on Carl Sagan’s famous quote concerning an image of Earth as seen from the Voyager 1 spacecraft 6 kilometers miles from home. Sagan greatly influenced the early direction of my career into mathematics and science. After reading this quote, no one can ever say that…
R.I.P. John Nash
Like everyone else, I was devastated today to hear of the passing of the nobel prize winning mathematician John Nash. He and his wife died in car crash on Saturday, May 23. When I first heard the news I thought his passing was due to old age as I am sure many first thought. Reading…