Marian
Changes
Funny acting website? Read this:
Only a couple of days ago I decided to go ahead with my plans of switching to a different - and, hopefully more reliable - hosting provider. The migration appears to have been almost successful, in that all the data and the settings were correctly transferred, with just a down note [...]
Big (!) in Japan
YOU KNOW ATTITUDES are shifting when, in the land of huge sumo wrestlers, ubiquitous jolly, fat-bellied tanuki and laughing buddhas, the size of your waist becomes a matter of legal concern.
I’ve been following with interest and with some dismay, to be sincere, the recent developments of the “metabo-mania” in the local society. Metabo - the [...]
Theme change
IT HAS BEEN quite a busy period for me this past two months - and what’s coming doesn’t look any brighter either -, with my full-time job solicitating enough and my private projects steadily piling up, but this site has a new look at last.
My Journal is featuring now Justin Tadlock’s extremely versatile Options theme [...]
April 29, 1854: Henri Poincaré is born
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912)
Scientific field: Mathematics, Physics
Known for: Poincaré conjecture, Three-body problem, Topology, Special relativity
Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, one of the greatest mathematicians and mathematical physicists at the end of 19th century. He made a series of profound innovations in geometry, the theory of differential equations, electromagnetism, topology, and the philosophy of [...]
April 25, 1903: Andrey Kolmogorov is born
Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov (1903-1987)
Scientific field: Mathematics
Known for: Information theory, Harmonic analysis, Number theory, Probability theory, Set theory
Andrey Kolmogorov was a Russian mathematician whose work influenced many branches of modern mathematics, and best remembered for a brilliant series of papers on the theory of probability.
Of the many areas of pure and applied mathematical research to which [...]
