I live and work on the edge of several different worlds: science, technology, society, academia, and writing. It is truly exhilarating trying to see the world from these different perspectives, though it can be exhausting–there’s a reason why I have multiple coffee and espresso machines! …

OK, genealogy, and academic genealogy at that, are perhaps not the most stimulating of topics. But throw in scientific and mathematical giants such as Euler, Bernoulli, Lagrange, Poisson, Hadamard, and a cameo by Leonardo da Vinci himself, and what began as a dry exercise turned into a …

Despite everyone being exhausted, sometimes speaking in incomplete or undecipherable sentences from lack of sleep, a murmur of expectation was building in the air.

Though everyone else had two days of the residency left, for the graduating class, today was graduation day.

In the morning, the last …