On Wednesday, 8 August 1900, David Hilbert addressed a Paris audience who had gathered for the keynote speech of the Second International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM).
On the evening of 1 April this year (fear not, this is not a very belated April Fool’s joke …) I was watching television and remembered that NASA’s Artemis II mission was about to launch, so I switched over to watch it on the BBC News channel.
