He was a mathematician nearly two millennia out of time: “Archimedes was the earliest thinker to develop the apparatus of an ...

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay.

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a new conceptual framework will reify concepts like understanding and intelligence; their progeny will be the equivalent of skyscrapers." One of the remarkable things about the book is that it is ...

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Originally published on 11 May 2024. Kim Beazley was appointed as Minister for Defence on 13 December 1984. He oversaw a ...

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Happy holidays! As we do at the end of each year, The Review asked a dozen of our contributors to recommend scholarly books ...

Selected by Jane Campbell, the author of the novel “Interpretations of Love.” ...