The Mathematics of Time
Author | : Steve Smale |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1461381010 |
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Author | : Steve Smale |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1461381010 |
Author | : Arthur T. Winfree |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 543 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 3662224925 |
As 1 review these pages, the last of them written in Summer 1978, some retrospec tive thoughts come to mind which put the whole business into better perspective for me and might aid the prospective reader in choosing how to approach this volume. The most conspicuous thought in my mind at present is the diversity of wholly independent explorations that came upon phase singularities, in one guise or another, during the past decade. My efforts to gather the published literature during the last phases of actually writing a whole book about them were almost equally divided between libraries of Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, and Physics. A lot of what 1 call "gathering " was done somewhat in anticipation in the form of cönjecture, query, and prediction based on analogy between developments in different fields. The consequence throughout 1979 was that our long-suffering publisher re peatedly had to replace such material by citation of unexpected flurries of papers giving substantive demonstration. 1 trust that the authors of these many excellent reports, and especially of those I only found too late, will forgive the brevity of allusion I feIt compelled to observe in these substitutions. A residue of loose ends is largely collected in the index under "QUERIES. " It is c1ear to me already that the materials I began to gather several years ago represented only the first flickering of what turns out to be a substantial conflagration.
Author | : Alice Wonders |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2021-11-08 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 3030771660 |
The title of this book, Math in the Time of Corona, has been drawn from the highly acclaimed novel by Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera. The volume editor, Alice Wonders, holds a fictitious name that represents the mathematics publishing group at Springer Nature. Undeterred by disasters, so many mathematical and scientific discoveries have been made during times of duress or confinement. Unlike most any other subject, mathematics may be researched from anywhere. Covid-19, like Cholera, implementation of vaccinations have been uneven throughout the globe since the beginning of 2021. However, there has been a renewed hope for a return to normalcy though the timing will no doubt vary worldwide. Essays in this volume vary in topic and are written by members of the greater mathematics community, hence the use of “Math” in the book title. They recount or describe significant or noteworthy discoveries, musings, award winnings, eureka moments, challenges, solutions, inspirations, etc. that have resulted from, or have occurred during, an unprecedented global pandemic. Several of the authors have been involved in starting new research and devising new methodologies related to society’s response to the outbreak and its ability to self-organize during a dramatic and complex situation. Some contributions describe how mathematical models and the management of big data have proved to be fundamental tools for the interpretation of epidemic activity and development of coping mechanisms.
Author | : Gina Bari Kolata |
Publisher | : Union Square & Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9781402793226 |
Presents a selection from the archives of the New York newspaper of its writings on mathematics from 1892 to 2010, covering such topics as chaos theory, statistics, cryptography, and computers.
Author | : Roger Penrose |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2011-09-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0307596745 |
From Nobel prize-winner Roger Penrose, this groundbreaking book is for anyone "who is interested in the world, how it works, and how it got here" (New York Journal of Books). Penrose presents a new perspective on three of cosmology’s essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us? He shows how the expected fate of our ever-accelerating and expanding universe—heat death or ultimate entropy—can actually be reinterpreted as the conditions that will begin a new “Big Bang.” He details the basic principles beneath our universe, explaining various standard and non-standard cosmological models, the fundamental role of the cosmic microwave background, the paramount significance of black holes, and other basic building blocks of contemporary physics. Intellectually thrilling and widely accessible, Cycles of Time is a welcome new contribution to our understanding of the universe from one of our greatest mathematicians and thinkers.
Author | : Roberto Mangabeira Unger |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1107074061 |
Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin argue for a revolution in our cosmological ideas. Ideal for non-scientists, physicists and cosmologists.
Author | : Mandy Kahn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781908998989 |
Poetry. After selling out its British edition, Mandy Kahn's stunning first collection of poems, MATH, HEAVEN, TIME, is now available in an American paperback edition. This is a collection with easy lyricism and clear- eyed wisdom woven effortlessly into its remarkably readable fabric, written by a poet whom World Literature Today calls "a rising star of West Coast poetry," and about whom Flaunt magazine says, "She is that relatively rare cultural anomaly, the professional poet, who confounds the warnings of finger- wagging parents and college counsellors everywhere."
Author | : Max Tegmark |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2015-02-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0307744256 |
Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist. Fascinating from first to last—this is a book that has already prompted the attention and admiration of some of the most prominent scientists and mathematicians.
Author | : Béla Bollobás |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2006-09-14 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1139936662 |
Can a Christian escape from a lion? How quickly can a rumour spread? Can you fool an airline into accepting oversize baggage? Recreational mathematics is full of frivolous questions where the mathematician's art can be brought to bear. But play often has a purpose. In mathematics, it can sharpen skills, provide amusement, or simply surprise, and books of problems have been the stock-in-trade of mathematicians for centuries. This collection is designed to be sipped from, rather than consumed in one sitting. The questions range in difficulty: the most challenging offer a glimpse of deep results that engage mathematicians today; even the easiest prompt readers to think about mathematics. All come with solutions, many with hints, and most with illustrations. Whether you are an expert, or a beginner or an amateur mathematician, this book will delight for a lifetime.
Author | : Gregory L. Naber |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780486432359 |
This mathematically rigorous treatment examines Zeeman's characterization of the causal automorphisms of Minkowski spacetime and the Penrose theorem concerning the apparent shape of a relativistically moving sphere. Other topics include the construction of a geometric theory of the electromagnetic field; an in-depth introduction to the theory of spinors; and a classification of electromagnetic fields in both tensor and spinor form. Appendixes introduce a topology for Minkowski spacetime and discuss Dirac's famous "Scissors Problem." Appropriate for graduate-level courses, this text presumes only a knowledge of linear algebra and elementary point-set topology. 1992 edition. 43 figures.