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Wise, Thomas J. (1959). Centenary Studies. John (Francis Rodney) Collins: The two forgers : a biography of Harry Buxton Forman & Thomas James Wise, Aldershot : Scolar Press, 1992, ISBN 0-85967-754-0; Joseph Hone: The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world, London, UK : Chatto & Windus, 2024, ISBN 978-1-78474-467-0
The theme was brought forward by Aristotle's consideration of the apeiron—in the context of mathematics and physics (the study of nature): "Infinity turns out to be the opposite of what people say it is. It is not 'that which has nothing beyond itself' that is infinite, but 'that which always has something beyond itself'." (Aristotle) [5]
When his tutors—three nerds named Benjamin, Doug, and Gary—try to help Homer understand physics, he refuses to cooperate. Instead, Homer and Bart convince the nerds to pull a prank on rival college Springfield A&M by kidnapping the rival college's mascot, a pig named Sir Oinkcelot. When the pig falls ill after Homer feeds him malt liquor ...
James Thomson is known for his work on the improvement of water wheels, water pumps and turbines. Also his innovations in the analysis of regelation, i.e., the effect of pressure on the freezing point of water, and his studies in glaciology including glacier motion, where he extended the work of James David Forbes.
The 10 to 1 ratio was an estimate made in 1972; current estimates put the ratio at either 3 to 1 or 1.3 to 1. [301] The total length of capillaries in the human body is not 100,000 km. That figure comes from a 1929 book by August Krogh, who used an unrealistically large model person and an inaccurately high density of capillaries.
Jaynes around 1982. Edwin Thompson Jaynes (July 5, 1922 – April 30, [1] 1998) was the Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis.He wrote extensively on statistical mechanics and on foundations of probability and statistical inference, initiating in 1957 the maximum entropy interpretation of thermodynamics [2] [3] as being a particular application of ...
Thomas Korff Gaisser (March 12, 1940, Evansville, Indiana – February 20, 2022, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania) [1] was a particle physicist, cosmic ray researcher, and a pioneer of astroparticle physics. [2] He is known for his book Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics [3] and the Gaisser–Hillas function. [4]
Richard Phillips Feynman (/ ˈ f aɪ n m ə n /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist.He is best known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and in particle physics, for which he proposed the parton model.