Sunday, May 18, 2014

Sadness, be gone!


As mathematicians meet in New York to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Dürer's print Melencolia, Karl Galle asks whether it is a depiction of despairing genius or of scholarly optimism


http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2014/may/16/-triumph-melancholy-anniversary-durer-history-science