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How To Solve Any Problem Using Enrico Fermi’s Back-Of-The-Envelope Math (And Some Common Sense)

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...

Fermi: The Problems Of Raising Capital Amidst Hype

Fermi remains substantially overvalued even after a steep price drop. Read more about the recent loss of a major tenant for ...
NBC New York

Use This Simple Math Principle to Make Better Decisions—It's Hiding in Plain Sight, Says Bestselling Author

Want to make better decisions in your personal life and the workplace? Turn to math, says Hannah Fry. The British mathematician, bestselling author and host of Bloomberg Media's "The Future with ...
EDN

Poincaré, Fermi, and prizes

There are still a few hours left to attempt to answer a version of the Fermi problem that I posed earlier. The prize I’m offering is modest, but you are probably too late to claim $1 million from the ...
MIT Technology Review

How Millie Dresselhaus paid it forward

Encouraged early on by Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi, the “Queen of Carbon” laid the foundation for countless advances in nanotechnology—and mentored countless young scientists along the way. Institute ...