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Lambert series in analytic number theory [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Annotated bibliography of 18th, 19th, and early 20th century works involving Lambert series. A tour of 19th and early 20th century analytic number theory.
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Astrophysical neutrinos: 20th Century and Beyond [PDF]

Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 91 (2001) 9-17; Int.J.Mod.Phys. A16 (2000) 4955-4968, 2000
I summarize the first four decades of solar neutrino research and suggest what may be possible to learn with extragalactic neutrinos and with solar neutrinos in the next decade.
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Formal models of memory based on temporally-varying representations [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
The idea that memory behavior relies on a gradually-changing internal state has a long history in mathematical psychology. This chapter traces this line of thought from statistical learning theory in the 1950s, through distributed memory models in the latter part of the 20th century and early part of the 21st century through to modern models based on a
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The dawning of the theory of equilibrium figures: a brief historical account from the 17th through the 20th century [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
A brief but complete historical survey of the theory of equilibrium figures from its early origins, dating back to 17th-century, until the latest 20th-century developments, with a view towards its applications, is carried out.
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Western Mathematics in China from the 16th to the 20th Century [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
From the 16th to the 20th century, Western mathematics had a dramatic impact in China. Firstly they triggered lexical developments, e.g. in the field of geometry. Later, in the 19the century, even though Li Shanlan had invented his own system of algebraic notations, however Western ones were enventually adopted.
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A mathematician's view of the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
This paper discusses, from a mathematician's point of view, the thesis formulated by Israel Gelfand, one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, and one of the pioneers of mathematical biology: "There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ...
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History of Leningrad Mathematics in the first half of the 20th century [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
The first half of the 20th century in the history of Russian mathematics is striking with a combination of dramaticism, sometimes a tragedy, and outstanding achievements. The paper is devoted to St. Petersburg-Leningrad Mathematical School. It is based on a chapter in the multi-author monograph "Mathematical Petersburg. History, science, sights" (SPb:
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Weyl geometry in late 20th century physics [PDF]

arXiv, 2011
Weyl's original scale geometry of 1918 ("purely infinitesimal geometry") was withdrawn from physical theory in the early 1920s. It had a comeback in the last third of the 20th century in different contexts: scalar tensor theories of gravity, foundations of physics (gravity, quantum mechanics), elementary particle physics, and cosmology.
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3D Printing & the Artists Known As the Fauves [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
In this short, chatty paper, I describe how my attempt to use mathematics to create a 3D print of a school portrait led me a group of early 20th century French artists known as the Fauves.
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Pathways of History of Elementary Particle Physics [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
In this first paper, we briefly retrace some historical pathways of modern physics of 20th Century. In particular, we have considered some moments of cosmic ray physics and, above all, the early theoretical and experimental bases which will lead to the first exact measurements of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, one of the main high precision
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