Before English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton's time, physicists experimented using simple mathematical calculations. Physics and related sciences actually began to develop after Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz devised calculus....

Until the end of the nineteenth century, the people who studied mathematics and those who studied physics would probably not have separated themselves out professionally. Both would have called themselves "natural philosophers," and many of them did...

Since the 1960s physics has seen a rebirth of the use of advanced mathematics. Much of this revival occurred after the study of black holes was greatly expanded in the 1960s and 1970s by the English scientists Stephen Hawking (1942- ) and Roger...

Mathematical physics is the scientific discipline concerned with "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the development of mathematical methods suitable for such applications and for the formulation of physical theories."[1] It can...

SOME EXTREMAL FAMILIES OF EDGE-REGULAR GRAPHS. Kenneth Roblee, Dept. of Mathematics and Physics, Troy State Univ., Troy, AL 36082. Tom Smotzer, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Youngstown State Univ., Youngstown, OH 44555. We build on previous results concerning regular simple graphs in...

REAL-TIME ON-LINE MONITORING OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN DIFFERENT MEDIA USING LASER INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECROSCOPY. Akshaya Kumar and Prakash C. Sharma, Department of Physics, College of Engineering, Architecture and Physical Sciences, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088. It is shown that LIBS is a...

Charles Plumier (1646 – 1704), was a famous Franciscan monk, vegetarian and botanist, who over the course of his lifetime created 31 manuscripts which documented over 4,300 plants, and 1,200 animals including birds, fish, crabs and mussels. Noted discoveries include the Begonia, Fuchsia, Lobelia, Magnolia,...

In 1950, an American in Japan changed the course of a nation and launched a revolution in global business. His passion was quality.W. Edwards Deming (1900-93) was an evangelist for quality. In July of that year he met with hundreds of Japanese executives at the...