In this issue, we follow the extraordinary journey of George Green, a self-taught miller whose quiet brilliance reshaped physics and calculus with a theorem still echoing today. We probe functions whose derivatives conceal harmonic sums,… Read More »The Curious Quest 15
A special issue celebrating the release of 10 issues! Packed with 4 stories stories, 11 problems and 3 puzzles. Also contains something special for non-xavierites on 2nd page!!
In this issue, we venture into the infinite unknown with Hilbert’s paradoxical hotel that’s perpetually full yet always has room. We grapple with countable sequences that dance between zeros and ones, wrestle with continuous functions… Read More »The Curious Quest 10
Explore the fiery brilliance of Évariste Galois in this issue’s historical feature, then tackle three challenging problems spanning polynomials, contraction mappings, and number-theoretic recursions. Finally, test your probabilistic intuition with a clever coin-flipping enigma starring… Read More »The Curious Quest 7
Dive into three elegant math problems exploring polynomials, parity, and a mysterious factorial recurrence — plus logic puzzle involving a role played by Benedict Cumberbatch and a role played by Benedict Cumberbatch, classic anecdotes, and… Read More »The Curious Quest 5
This issue opens with a witty exposé on Nicolas Bourbaki, the fictional mathematician whose collective genius reshaped 20th-century math through a prank that turned into a movement. The Problem Arena features three advanced mathematical challenges… Read More »The Curious Quest 4
