Love & Math

Reading Love & Math by Edward Frenkel and loved this story:

"Another joke he like to tell involved the wireless telegraph: 'at the beginning of the twentieth century, someone asks a physicist at a party; can you explain how it works? The physicist replies that it is very simple: first you have to understand how the ordinary, wired, telegraph works: imagine a dog with its head in London and its tail in Paris. You pull the tail in Paris, and the dog barks in London. The wireless , says the physicist is the same thing without a dog."

Keep thinking this story can be applied to different situations too.

Love & Math

"As the story goes, Albert Einstein's wife Elsa remarked, upon hearing that a telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory was needed to determine the shape of space time. 'Oh my, my husband does that on the back of an old envelope.'" - Edward Frenkel Love & Math

Think many people confuse mathematicians with modern magicians because everything is algorithms these days but very few understand how math is used in the modern world. 

Only about a fifth into the book but enjoying it so far.