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2017 March « Math Scholar

Math Scholar blog moved to MathScholar.org

Thanks for reading the articles on this blog.

It is my pleasure to announce that the Math Scholar blog now has its own domain, appropriately named MathScholar.org. Existing posts on this blog have been copied to the new blog, and beginning on 22 March 2017, all future posts will be posted to the new blog.

Please visit MathScholar.org soon!.

March 23rd, 2017 | Category: News | Comments are closed

Exoplanets, 4 billion-year-old life, Fermi’s paradox and zero-one laws

What do exoplanets, four-billion-year-old life, Fermi’s paradox and zero-one laws of probability theory have to do with each other? Quite a bit, actually. Let us review these developments, one by one:

New exoplanet discoveries

Depiction of the seven exoplanets of the TRAPPIST-1 system. Courtesy NASA.

On 22 February 2017, a consortium of NASA and European astronomers announced that there are not just one but seven planets that potentially could harbor life, all orbiting a yellow dwarf star named TRAPPIST-1, about 40 light-years (235 trillion miles or 378 trillion km) from earth. This is clearly a remarkable discovery, adding seven to

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March 3rd, 2017 | Category: Essays | Comments are closed