Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Friday, December 24, 2010
Scientific poetry...
To a beautiful girl
(author unknown, posted on PhysicistTV.com)
I’d like to integrate your curves
over your entire surface
or to make a fourier analysis
of your sinuses and cosinuses
and measure the intensity
of the wonderful peaks I’d get. [...]
For the remainder of the verse look at here.
(author unknown, posted on PhysicistTV.com)
I’d like to integrate your curves
over your entire surface
or to make a fourier analysis
of your sinuses and cosinuses
and measure the intensity
of the wonderful peaks I’d get. [...]
For the remainder of the verse look at here.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
What is a black hole?
To most observers and phenomenologists, a black hole might just as easily be a black box - a flexible source of power whose properties are limited only by its total mass and the referees of theoretical papers.
Roger Blandford, To the lighthouse.
Roger Blandford, To the lighthouse.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Snow in space?
This morning, while coming in my office, I heard the weather forecasting from an Italian broadcast news. They spoke about "snow above 500 thousands meters" (sic!). This means that there is snow in space, because 500 thousands meters or 500 km is - more or less - the average altitude of the Low Earth Orbit, where are the International Space Station and of Hubble Space Telescope.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Friday, December 10, 2010
Mathematics and Sex
There is a unique book sitting on the shelf of the Math Library at UCLA. Admittedly, it is a samizdat (self-published) book. But it is typed and bound and sits with perfect dignity alongside many another august tome. It is:
[S.G. Krantz, Mathematical Apocrypha, The Mathematical Association of America, (2002), p. 9]
Sex, Crime, and Functional Analysis
Part I: Functional Analysis
by J.D. Stein
[S.G. Krantz, Mathematical Apocrypha, The Mathematical Association of America, (2002), p. 9]
Thursday, December 9, 2010
How stars affect human lives?
"I believe the stars can affect human lives... particularly by providing employment for thousands of astronomers!"
Virginia Trimble at the Texas Symposium 2010 in Heidelberg (Germany)
Virginia Trimble at the Texas Symposium 2010 in Heidelberg (Germany)
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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