Academic webpage of Julien Colin / Thu, 14 May 2026 09:32:57 +0000 A list of 50 brilliant minds who have significantly advanced our understanding of the world and contributed to making it a better place! Name Years Country Major Contributions Pythagoras 570-495 BC Greece Best known for the Pythagorean theorem, which relates the sides of a right triangle. His contributions also extend to musical theory and philosophical concepts of numbers and their relationships. Euclid circa 300 BC Greece Often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry,' Euclid's work 'Elements' is one of the most influential works in the history of mathematics, laying out the foundations of plane geometry. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543 Poland... Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 /fun/2024/05/31/great-mathematicians-and-physicists.html /fun/2024/05/31/great-mathematicians-and-physicists.html Lorentz transformation \[\begin{equation}\label{lorentz} \begin{aligned} x' &= \frac{x-ut/c^2}{\sqrt{1-u^2/c^2}} \\ t' &= \frac{t-ux/c^2}{\sqrt{1-u^2/c^2}}\\ y' &= y \\ z' &= z \end{aligned} \end{equation}\] Rotation \[\begin{equation}\label{rotation} \begin{aligned} x' &= x\cos(\theta) + y\sin(\theta) \\ y' &= y\cos(\theta) - x\sin(\theta) \\ z' &= z \\ t' &= t \end{aligned} \end{equation}\] Equation \eqref{lorentz} is beautiful. So is equation \eqref{rotation}. References The Feynman Lectures on Physics First Year Photos (1961‑62) Lecture 17 Lorentz transformation on Wikipedia Tue, 28 Nov 1961 00:00:00 +0000 /lecture/notes/1961/11/28/space-time.html /lecture/notes/1961/11/28/space-time.html Attending the Winter School on Foundation Models in Amsterdam Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /allnews.html 1 paper accepted at ICLR 2026 Workshop on Representational Alignment Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /allnews.html Visiting Brown University as a Research Fellow for 6 months Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 /allnews.html