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unusual facts about mathematical physics


Dan Ariely

Ariely was a physics and mathematics major at Tel Aviv University, but transferred to philosophy and psychology.


CEREMADE

The CEREMADE is a research center where applications of mathematics to areas of scientific activity as diverse as economics, finance, image and signal processing, data analysis and classification theory, mathematical physics, mechanics, epidemiology and astronomy are studied.

Dannie Heineman

He was a prolific sponsor of science especially through Heineman Foundation in medical sciences and awards in mathematical physics and astrophysics.

Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau algebra

In mathematical physics, the Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau algebra (DKP algebra), introduced by R.J. Duffin, Nicholas Kemmer and G. Petiau, is the algebra which is generated by the Duffin–Kemmer–Petiau matrices.

Felix Pollaczek

Félix Pollaczek (1 December 1892 in Vienna – 29 April 1981 at Boulogne-Billancourt) was an Austrian-French engineer and mathematician, known for numerous contributions to number theory, mathematical analysis, mathematical physics and probability theory.

Jakob Yngvason

He is professor of mathematical physics at the University of Vienna and Deputy Director of the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics (ESI) in Vienna.

Jim Stasheff

Stasheff's research contributions include the study of associativity in loop spaces and the construction of the associahedron (also called the Stasheff polytope), ideas leading to the theory of operads; homotopy theoretic approaches to Hilbert's fifth problem on the characterization of Lie groups; and the study of Poisson algebras in mathematical physics.

Michael C. Reed

Originally best known for his collaboration with Barry Simon on an extensive series of widely adopted graduate texts, Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics (four volumes) published from 1972 to 1978, Reed has since worked predominantly in applications of analysis to biology.

Vladimir Drinfeld

Drinfeld introduced the notion of a quantum group (independently discovered by Michio Jimbo at the same time) and made important contributions to mathematical physics, including the ADHM construction of instantons, algebraic formalism of the Quantum inverse scattering method, and the Drinfeld–Sokolov reduction in the theory of solitons.

Walter Newall

His built works included villas at Cardoness (1828), for Sir David Maxwell, Baronet, and Glenlair, Corsock (1830), home of mathematician and theoretical physicist James Clerk Maxwell.


see also

27855 Giorgilli

It is named after Antonio Giorgilli, a professor of mathematical physics at the University of Milan.

African Institute for Mathematical Sciences

AIMS was founded by Neil Turok in 2003, while he was Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University.

Boris Podolsky

In 1935, he took a post as professor of mathematical physics at the University of Cincinnati.

Grigore Moisil

In 1930 Moisil went to the University of Paris for further study in mathematics, which he finalized the next year with the paper On a class of systems of equations with partial derivatives from mathematical physics.

Jakob Yngvason

He was Vice-President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics 2000–2005 and Editor-in-Chief of Reviews in Mathematical Physics 2006-2010.

Joseph Liouville

In mathematical physics, Liouville made two fundamental contributions: the Sturm–Liouville theory, which was joint work with Charles François Sturm, and is now a standard procedure to solve certain types of integral equations by developing into eigenfunctions, and the fact (also known as Liouville's theorem) that time evolution is measure preserving for a Hamiltonian system.

Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations

The Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations was founded in 2004 and carries papers pertaining to nonlinear hyperbolic problems and related mathematical topics, specifically on the theory and numerical analysis of hyperbolic conservation laws and of hyperbolic partial differential equations arising in mathematical physics.

Lucien Hardy

In 1992, he became lecturer in mathematical physics at Maynooth College, The National University of Ireland, subsequently was Royal Society postdoctoral fellow at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, lecturer in Mathematical Sciences Department at the University of Durham, UK, and held a postdoctoral position at La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy.

Michael A. Levi

Levi holds a BSc (Hons.) in mathematical physics from Queen's University, and an MA degree in physics from Princeton University, where he studied string theory and cosmology.

Piero Giorgio Bordoni

In 1954 became Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Pisa, where he remained until 1962, when he passed to the Faculty of Engineering of the University or Rome.

The Way the World Is

The Way the World Is: Christian Perspective of a Scientist is a book first published in 1983 by the John Polkinghorne, who was a Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

Vladimir E. Zakharov

In 1992, Zakharov became a professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona, and in 2004 he became the director of the Mathematical Physics Sector at the Lebedev Physical Institute.