Fabiola Gianotti

Check out these scientists reacting to the first images from the Hubble Space Telescope after they successfully fixed its wonky mirror.

Then watch our music video celebrating Hubble here.

Then read all about Hubble’s 25 years in space here.

This analysis book was published in 1970. At some point in its life before I purchased it last summer (a life which spanned 18 years before I was even born, by the way), it was owned by someone who read every page, and wrote enthusiastic comments in the margins next to particularly thrilling conclusions to proofs. I love this subject, and I share every sentiment with this unknown stranger. I too love the drama of confusion and the triumph of understanding, and I love sharing that experience with this person with whom I have a rare and important commonality. Wherever you are book-commenting analysis enthusiast, I think the world of you. I hope you have a happy life full of abstract mathematics.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (via yesdarlingido)

Chemistry + Physics

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Cemetery of Dead Science on our floor this week!

Happy Back to the Future Day! We’re kind of obsessed with the future predictions found on these old cigarette cards from our Digital Collections. Imagine London being lit by a gigantic laser light contraption? Amazing.

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If you keep dividing the line segment infinitely you get something really interesting. It is called Cantor Dust. You get an infinite number of points with a total length of zero’ Fathom the Universe

I’ve been messing around with themes and I don’t know if I’m sold on this one yet

anyway here’s a picture of buns because buns

Terrible! This is stupid math, I hate this!

Complex analysis professor after his spur-of-the-moment example problem turned ugly (via mathprofessorquotes)