What’s the next geeky historical marker we should aim for?
The upcoming year may or may not turn out to be a good one but one thing is certain: It will see an uptick in New Hampshire’s geek status. How do I know? Because my quest to publicly acknowledge the Granite State as the birthplace of the BASIC computer language has...Come see (& talk about) a movie concerning the most surprising math in NH history
As promised last week, I’m hosting a talk next Tuesday (Sept. 26) after a showing of “Counting From Infinity” – here’s my column from the Monitor discussing it: No matter how many bar arguments you’ve been involved in, I’ll bet you’ve...‘Counting From Infinity’ film on UNH math breakthrough coming to NH, with a discussion afterward
Yitang “Tom” Zhang used to be a calculus teacher at UNH and apparently a good one – students praised him on RateMyProfessors.com, unusual for a mathematician with a strong accent – when he published a breakthrough in the twin-prime problem that made him...That documentary about NH’s most famous math discovery is out
The documentary about the twin-prime discovery by Yitang “Tom” Zhang, made when he was a lecturer at UNH in Durham, has been released. (I mentioned that it was coming a few months ago). Here are a few details, and the trailer. I’m working on getting...
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Dave Brooks has written a science/tech column since 1991 – yes, that long – and has written this blog since 2006, keeping an eye on topics of geekish interest in and around New Hampshire, from software to sea level rise, population dynamics to printing (3-D, of course). He moderates monthly Science Cafe NH discussions, beer in hand, and discusses the geek world regularly on WGIR-AM radio..
Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics but got lost on the way to the Ivory Tower and ended up in a newsroom. He has reported for newspapers from Tennessee to New England. Rummage through his bag of awards you’ll find oddities like three Best Blog prizes from the New Hampshire Press Association and a Writer of the Year award from the N.H. Farm and Forest Bureau, of all places. He joined the Concord Monitor in 2015.