Noor us Sahar's articles Life Science Alchemy: Its Development Through History To a person familiar with Urdu and Arabic, alchemy may simply seem like a word which refers to chemistry: ‘al’ meaning ‘the’ and ‘chemy’ referring to the study of chemicals. But with a peculiar history, the subject is the root of many branches of modern-day science as well as philosophy, dating back centuries when the […] Written by Noor us Sahar 2018-10-122018-10-13 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Engineering Pareto Equilibrium: How Efficient is Pareto Efficiency? Imagine that your friend and you have a total of 100 apples and 100 bananas to divide amongst yourselves. You dislike apples, but your friend likes them. Your friend dislikes bananas, but you like them. Hence logically, it would only make sense that you got all the bananas and your friend got all the apples. […] Written by Noor us Sahar 2018-08-282018-10-13 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Mathematics Zero Divided By Zero: Is There More To It? “Imagine that you have zero cookies”, Siri’s response begins, “and you split them evenly among zero friends. How many cookies does each person get? See? It doesn’t make sense. And Cookie Monster is sad that there are no cookies, and you are sad that you have no friends.” This is the comical answer that […] Written by Noor us Sahar 2018-07-312018-10-13 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Featured Mathematics Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017) – The First Woman to win Fields Medal Maryam Mirzakhani – the first woman of hopefully many, to win the Fields Medal, died on 14th July 2017. A brilliant Iranian mathematician and a professor of Mathematics at Stanford University, her legacy consists of many accolades and laurels for her work in Mathematics, particularly in the areas of hyperbolic geometry and symplectic geometry: both […] Written by Noor us Sahar 2018-04-222018-10-13 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Life Science Alchemy: Its Development Through History To a person familiar with Urdu and Arabic, alchemy may simply seem like a word which refers to chemistry: ‘al’ meaning ‘the’ and ‘chemy’ referring to the study of chemicals. But with a peculiar history, the subject is the root of many branches of modern-day science as well as philosophy, dating back centuries when the […] Written by Noor us Sahar 2018-10-122018-10-13 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Engineering Pareto Equilibrium: How Efficient is Pareto Efficiency? Imagine that your friend and you have a total of 100 apples and 100 bananas to divide amongst yourselves. You dislike apples, but your friend likes them. Your friend dislikes bananas, but you like them. Hence logically, it would only make sense that you got all the bananas and your friend got all the apples. […] Written by Noor us Sahar 2018-08-282018-10-13 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Mathematics Zero Divided By Zero: Is There More To It? “Imagine that you have zero cookies”, Siri’s response begins, “and you split them evenly among zero friends. How many cookies does each person get? See? It doesn’t make sense. And Cookie Monster is sad that there are no cookies, and you are sad that you have no friends.” This is the comical answer that […] Written by Noor us Sahar 2018-07-312018-10-13 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Featured Mathematics Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017) – The First Woman to win Fields Medal Maryam Mirzakhani – the first woman of hopefully many, to win the Fields Medal, died on 14th July 2017. A brilliant Iranian mathematician and a professor of Mathematics at Stanford University, her legacy consists of many accolades and laurels for her work in Mathematics, particularly in the areas of hyperbolic geometry and symplectic geometry: both […] Written by Noor us Sahar 2018-04-222018-10-13 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked