Wankpuffin – Science is a Cruel Mistress

The Coventry Carol

20th December 2017 OldTrout Arts, Christianity, Music, Philosophy 999

Several oil-on-oak-panel versions of The Massacre of the Innocents were painted by 16th-century Netherlandish painters Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his son Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The work translates the Biblical account of the Massacre [more…]

Going Postal New Year’s Eve

31st December 2018 Going Postal Arts, Computing, Culture, Going Postal, Hobbies, Holiday, Music, Science 0

Sophie Germain Primes and Cunningham Chains

28th September 2020 OldTrout 18th Century, 19th Century, History, Mathematics, Science 0

A Sophie Germain prime is a prime number such that is also a prime number. That is, , where and are both prime. For example, . The sequence begins Sophie Germain () explored these primes [more…]