January – 2010 – Konrad Voelkel's Blog

The strangest software bug ever. The keys “A S D F” and “J K L” didn’t work any longer (on a Thinkpad T60). The solution applies to Windows & Linux and similar laptop models.

Mathematics for non-mathematicians: I recommend a talk by Dan Freed, “The Hodge Conjecture”. You’ll get a glimpse on some central ideas of geometry from this talk, even if you’re not interested in the Hodge Conjecture.

Photos taken from an advertisement found in a metro station.

The term Web 2.0 was coined in 1999. What about Math 2.0? Math 2.0 is not only about mathematical blogs, videos and wikis. Math 2.0 is more than just Web 2.0 plus math.