The Encouragement of Science
What can be done to promote innovation? Money is not enough. Science is most likely to flourish in a society which not only educates its members but also gives free rein to the curiosity of the individual
Lewis Carroll: Mathematician
Many people who have read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" are aware that the author was a mathematician. Exactly what was his work in mathematics?
Fundamental Questions in Science
An issue devoted to science in its strict sense: the interrogation of nature. This introduction raises the question: Does our society confuse science with applied science, and thus neglect the former?
Statistics
The word usually suggests masses of numerical information, but it also describes that department of mathematics which grapples with the complexity of nature by means of samples
Probability
Three centuries ago some sensible questions asked by gamblers founded a branch of mathematics. Today it powerfully assists our understanding of nature
The Mathematics of Communication
An important new theory is based on the statistical character of language. In it the concept of entropy is closely linked with the concept of information