A new gift establishes the Leinweber Forum for Theoretical Physics at Princeton University, which is now the 9th member of ...
Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...
There are not many professions where people routinely ask you to justify your work, but theoretical physics one of them. In the wake of the recent Nobel Prize to Peter Higgs and François Englert for ...
Jainendra K. Jain's theory of composite fermions belongs firmly in the second category.Born in rural Rajasthan and now the Erwin W. Müller Professor of Physics at Pennsylvania State University, Jain ...
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How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a ...
The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature’s Deepest Secrets Graham Farmelo Faber & Faber (2019) Mathematics is an immensely powerful tool for understanding the laws of the ...