Saturday Class Every leading astronomer in Europe tried to find the lost asteroid Ceres with statistics. Every one failed. An unknown 24-year-old, Carl Gauss, found it from 41 days of data...
What follows is a republication of "On the 375th Anniversary of Kepler's Passing," which I originally wrote in November 2005 as part of my series "Riemann for Anti-Dummies." That series was produced to educate young people in the fundamental scientific principles underlying the American...