The Science and Art of the Diagrams: Culturing Physics and Mathematics, Part 1 As the culture of the diagram in science is magnificently wide in breadth and scope, for this post, I will concentrate on ...

Tools can change not only how theorists calculate but also what they calculate about. But two decades ago, Ursula Klein, a scholar from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, ...

You’re probably familiar with the old joke about a physicist who, when asked to use science to help a dairy farmer, begins by approximating a spherical cow in a vacuum. But maybe it’s time to ...