Showing posts with label Mathematics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mathematics. Show all posts
Thursday, May 07, 2015

What Does It Mean For An Equation To Be Beautiful Or Elegant?

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Friday, September 20, 2013

Nima Arkani-Hamed Lectures

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Nima Arkani-Hamed on developments in Physics and future vision The Salam Lecture Series 2012, with a week-long series of lect...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Questions on the History of Mathematics

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Arthur Miller Einstein and Schrödinger never fully accepted the highly abstract nature of Heisenberg's quantum mechanics, says Mi...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Presenting a New Theoretical Position

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney Here's the thing that I would caution such a quote, th...
Friday, January 12, 2007

Clock Work Universe

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Fig 1.4 A two-dimensional coordinate system can be used to locate the position of any point in terms of its x- and y-coordinates Figure 1.4 ...
Sunday, January 07, 2007

PLATO:Mathematician or Mystic ?

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal...
Saturday, January 06, 2007

Mersenne Prime: One < the Power of two

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It looks as though primes tend to concentrate in certain curves that swoop away to the northwest and southwest, like the curve marked by the...
Monday, January 01, 2007

Symmetries Can be Chaotically Complex

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Imagine in an "action of a kind" you start off from one place. A photon travelling through a slit of Thomas Young's, to get th...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Against Symmetry

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The term “symmetry” derives from the Greek words sun (meaning ‘with’ or ‘together’) and metron (‘measure’), yielding summetria, and original...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Visual Abstraction to Equations

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Sylvester's models lay hidden away for a long time, but recently the Mathematical Institute received a donation to rescue some of them. ...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Graviton in a Can?

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After you consume "graviton in a can," you might never be the same? Brane thinking may then dominate your every view of the world....
Sunday, October 22, 2006

The Radius of the Little Circle

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Where a dictionary proceeds in a circular manner, defining a word by reference to another, the basic concepts of mathematics are infinitely ...
Saturday, October 21, 2006

The History of "Star Shine to Now"

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In "The String Saga of Star Shine" I gave a distant measure of how we might seen any event from that time to now. But before I be...
Friday, October 20, 2006

Doppelgänger Favors Oscillate

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"Observations always involve theory." Edwin Hubble Of course I relate the "Ghost Particle to Pauli" here so that people ...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

George Gabriel Stokes

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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet (13 August 1819–1 February 1903) was an Irish mathematician and physicist, who at Cambridge made impo...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

What is Cerenkov Radiation?

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...the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the a...
Monday, October 09, 2006

Box Counting or "Points" on the Strings Length?

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The jump from conventional field theories of point-like objects to a theory of one-dimensional objects has striking implications. The vibrat...