Cover Image: Lilly Guilbeault, April 2026 By: Flore Devernay, Contributing Writer In 1608, Peter Roth published Arithmetica Philosophica, where he … More
Category: b – Mathematics & Physics
For pieces with strong mathematics, physics, or astronomy elements.
Your new favorite number: Part 2
Cover Image: Lilly Guilbeault, March 2026 By: Flore Devernay, Contributing Writer We’ve all had to endure the excruciatingly painful task … More
Your new favorite number: Part 1
Cover Image: Lilly Guilbeault, March 2026 By: Flore Devernay, Contributing Writer We’ve all had to endure the excruciatingly painful task … More
What do a broccoli, a lightning strike, and blood vessels have in common?
Cover Image: Drawing by Rachel Gerllays, February 2026 By: Flore Devernay, Contributing Writer Before you read any further, go out … More
The quantum route to consciousness
A theory to explain how we are conscious which is so bizarre, it just might be true…
Space above earth is turning into a junkyard
Debris from past launches puts future space exploration at risk. For satellites and other spacecraft, space around Earth is a perilous freeway of life and death.
Pythagoras: Triangles and triads
Written By: Yingke Liang Have you ever listened to western stringed music and enjoyed it? If you did, you owe … More
Alan Guth and the multiverse
Feature Photo: The Atlantic The content from this article was produced by Mathilde Papillon. On the evening of January 18, … More
A weekend of engineering: MEC 2017
The Feature photo was taken from the McGill Engineering Competition Facebook page. Each year, a handful of McGill engineering students … More
Not sure about SURE?
McGill’s Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) Award gives undergraduate students a 16-week, full-time internship position at an engineering research … More
Battling on the shoulders of giants
In the 20th century, we were proposed with two revolutionary theories in physics: quantum mechanics and relativity. Quantum mechanics deals … More
[Profile] Felix Cormier, Marcel Georgin, Stephen Koelbl, and Robert Oda, development and characterization of a directional gamma-ray detector
Researchers dream about projects that go perfectly – protocols that work on the first attempt, equipment that doesn’t break, and results that … More
McGill students’ astronomy club: Out of this world
Between the COSMOS series, recently reintroduced with Neil deGrasse Tyson as host, and the BICEP2 discovery, the realm beyond our atmosphere has … More
Infinity Series II: Zero volume with infinite surface area
Ascending and Descending (M. C. Escher, Lithograph, 1960). This is the second entry of the “Infinity Series”, which will introduce … More
Infinity Series I: Finite area with infinite perimeter
This is the first entry of the “Infinity Series”, which will introduce you to the peculiar world of infinity. Today, … More
You are an eggplant (Q.E.D.)
I will now prove that you are an eggplant. Let We have that We can also conclude that Subtracting the … More
Black holes and dinosaurs
So the last topic was on the idea of infinity (remember that we have to be careful about infinity – … More
Guts, toes, and other reasons why physics isn’t so bad
In my experience, McGill students are a diverse bunch. However, there’s one question that we invariably ask one another. It’s … More
What is infinity?
To read more by Shunsuke: http://msurjblog.com/author/shunsukekatayama/ “I love you to infinity”, “I love you to infinity plus one”, “I love you … More
La Mathematica dell’Arte: Let’s think about angles
What if you had the power to change the position of everything in the city while retaining the relationships between … More
La Mathematica dell’Arte: Let’s think about length
Prime: You know, magnitudes are great. Naught: What are you saying all of a sudden? Prime: This idea that things have magnitudes is … More
La Mathematica dell’Arte: let’s think about pizza
This is the second post in a series by Shunsuke Katayama, in which he has conversations with a version of himself … More
La Mathematica dell’Arte
Meet our third series blogger, Shunsuke, a U2 student majoring in math, and minoring in physics. He will be posting … More
