Alex Peek blog
Monday, May 29, 2017
Macroeconomic experiments
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In an earlier post I provided a list of 10 economic statements from famous economists. For this post I attempted to create a list of mac...
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Tjalling Koopmans: pioneer of optimization models
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , Eric Koch, CC0 1.0 Tjalling Koopmans (1910-1985) was an influential economist best known for optim...
Pierre-Simon Laplace and probability theory
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , Sophie Feytaud Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) was an influential mathematician and scientist best...
Marie Curie and scientific discovery
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons Marie Curie (1867-1934) was a Polish chemist best known for her pioneering work in radioactivity. Phy...
Friday, May 19, 2017
John von Neumann and mathematical science
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John von Neumann (1903-1957) was an influential mathematician best known his contributions to game theory and working on the Manhattan Proj...
Isaac Asimov and science fiction
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , Phillip Leonian Isaac Asimov (1920-1994) was an influential writer and biochemist best known for wr...
Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia
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Photo source: Wikimedia Commons , Lane Hartwell Photo license: CC BY-SA 3.0 Jimmy Wales (1966-now) is an internet entrepreneur and...
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