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Tag Archives: History
PDE Coffee Table Book
I stumbled upon The (Unfinished) PDE Coffee Table Book, which can be quite useful for future courses on PDE. Here is the link.
Posted in Applied Mathematics, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged Differential equations, History, Math 483: PDE
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Tree of Life
The only illustration in the Origin of Species is the following sketch of the tree of life by Charles Darwin: More recent tree of life is given by On this tree all multi-cellular organisms are a tiny branch in the … Continue reading
Posted in Complex networks, History, Uncategorized
Tagged biology, History, teaching, tree of life
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Smale’s horseshoe
Smale’s horseshoe, one of absolutely central notions of the modern theory of dynamical systems, was invented by Stephen Smale in 1960 in Rio de Janeiro, while Dr. Smale was receiving support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United … Continue reading
Posted in History, Lecture Notes, Math 760: ODE I, Math Club, NDSU
Tagged chaos, dynamical systems, History, Math Club, teaching
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Plans
I will talk about Smale’s horseshoe this Friday at our regular Math Club. My presentation at the AMS sectional meeting is scheduled for Sunday, April 17, 2016, Special Session on Topological and Smooth Dynamics, IV, Room 308, Minard Hall, for 2:30pm (the last talk). … Continue reading
Posted in Career, conferences, History, News, travel
Tagged Career, conferences, History
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Something about rigor in mathematics
A very interesting account of Oliver Heaviside work. Link.
History of solving PDE
A nice review with a lot of interesting details: Partial Differential Equations in the 20th Century by Brezis and Browder
Posted in Applied Mathematics, Around mathematics, History, Teaching
Tagged Applied mathematics, History, PDE, teaching
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Group selection versus kin selection
The group-selection dustup continues: E. O. Wilson calls Richard Dawkins a “journalist”
Posted in Evolutionary theory
Tagged evolution of altruism, Evolutionary game theory, History, kin selection
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Recommendation letters for Einstein
From here: From Henri Poincaré: Nov. 1911 My dear colleague, Mr Einstein is one of the most original thinkers I have ever met. In spite of his youth, he has already achieved a very honourable place among the leading savants … Continue reading
Conferences and presentations
This Friday I am going to talk about the history of the logistic equation at our Math Club In January I am planning to visit Baltimore for the Joint Mathematics Meeting For those in Moscow: Workshop on Random Graphs and their … Continue reading
Darwin and Wallace Online
The complete works of the founding fathers of the theory of evolution by means of natural selection are online: Darwin Online Wallace Online
Mathematical Biology 