Mathematical Physics
epub |eng | 2008-07-07 | Author:Leonard Susskind [SUSSKIND, LEONARD]

The paper that CGHS had written was an extremely elegant mathematical analysis of Hawking radiation, but somewhere in the analysis, they had made a mistake, claiming that Quantum Mechanics eliminated ...
( Category: Quantum Theory May 12,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Emanuel Derman [Derman, Emanuel]

To hedge one option with another, firms like Goldman needed a model that told you each option's value and its sensitivity to changes in interest rates. The renowned Black-Scholes model ...
( Category: Business March 20,2015 )
azw |eng | 2009-10-03 | Author:Abbott, Edwin Abbott [Abbott, Edwin Abbott]

PART II: OTHER WORLDS "O brave new worlds, that have such people in them!" Section 13. How I had a Vision of Lineland It was the last day but one ...
( Category: Hard Science Fiction January 17,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Frenkel, Edward [Frenkel, Edward]

*Vera Serganova, the fourth recipient of the Harvard Prize Fellowship, came in the spring. Chapter 14 Tying the Sheaves of Wisdom The spring semester brought more visitors to Harvard, one ...
( Category: Number Theory January 16,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-07-23 | Author:Stannard, Russell [Stannard, Russell]

The twin paradox revisited Knowing now about the effects of acceleration/gravity on clocks, we revisit the twin paradox. Earlier we described how the astronaut twin, having travelled to a distant ...
( Category: Relativity August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:Kogan, Vladimir, Galitski, Victor, Karnakov, Boris [Kogan, Vladimir, Galitski, Victor, Karnakov, Boris]

( Category: Mathematical Physics March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:A. S. Kompaneyets

We shall verify this: because and are, of course, commutative. Let us add to the right-hand side of the last equality, and subtract from it the combinations and ; we ...
( Category: Mathematical Physics March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-13 | Author:Dave Goldberg

LIFE NEAR THE EVENT HORIZON All of the gravitational effects we’ve seen so far, from Antworld to earth to the gravitational lensing effects of the sun, are small potatoes in ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:James Owen Weatherall

The ideas at the heart of Farmer’s and Packard’s work were first developed by a man named Edward Lorenz. As a young boy, Lorenz thought he wanted to be a ...
( Category: Mathematical Physics March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-05-01 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow

THOUGH CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY represented a revolution in ideas about randomness, Thomas Bayes was no revolutionary, and his work languished unattended despite its publication in the prestigious Philosophical Transactions in 1764. ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-05-31 | Author:Brian Greene

Figure 9.1 A doughnut, or torus, and its multihandled cousins. You might think that the number of holes in the curled-up Planck-sized dimensions—mountaintop physics par excellence—has now kicked an experimentally ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-09 | Author:Frank Close

Figure 6 Neutrinos produced in the decay of pions and moons. (a) A pion decays into a muon and a single neutrino. (b) When a muon (denoted it) decays into ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-08-12 | Author:Shing-tung Yau; Steve Nadi

Homological mirror symmetry was first unveiled by Kontsevich in 1993 and has been developing ever since, sparking considerable activity in both physics and math. Mirror symmetry, as originally formulated, didn’t ...
( Category: Geometry & Topology March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-29 | Author:Brian Greene

The Elegant Universe Chapter 9 The Smoking Gun: Experimental Signatures N othing would please string theorists more than to proudly present the world with a list of detailed, experimentally testable ...
( Category: Particle Physics March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow

THOUGH CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY represented a revolution in ideas about randomness, Thomas Bayes was no revolutionary, and his work languished unattended despite its publication in the prestigious Philosophical Transactions in 1764. ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 25,2014 )