Hard as it may be to imagine, there’s a newly defined geometric shape on the books. Based on recent calculations, mathematicians have described a new classification they now call a “soft cell.” In its ...

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Goldstine and John von Neumann. They give four hierarchical stages for planning and coding. At the top is the “mathematical stage” for the derivation of the algorithmic form of a mathematical problem.

(READ MORE: On Harris’s Bus…And Under It) I was about an hour into my trip, singing along to Arcadian Wild at the top of my lungs, when I passed a large sign in someone’s yard advertising ...