All posts by Lê Nguyên Hoang
John Nash, a Beautiful Mind | Genius 1
Can you glue opposite edges of a square? Relativity 7
MIT Glimpse (Episode 4)
I was interviewed in November 2015 by Alex Albanese on MIT Glimpse. We discussed Benford’s law, cake cutting, and online optimization. We also discussed how to pick the right toilet, why pi sucks, and why you should watch plenty of Youtube videos!
Space contraction and time dilation | Relativity 6
Subjective Web and Political Bipolarization
As I am preparing my documentary in French on the mathematics of Big Data, I have been discovering and deeply puzzled by so-called dataethics questions. One of them regards the personalization of the web. Google, Facebook, Twitter and others are creating for us microcosms that fit our every desires. This is awesome. In fact, as […]