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2013 July

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• TEN OR SO LATEST BLOG ENTRIES: No, I can't count. See also Complete list, 2012 Oct 15 - Present
  • 2013 July 29: Timeturner: A. P. Trotter's Poem "Time Turned Back"
  • 2013 July 22: "Like Pollen from a Pine": Svante Arrhenius's Transmission of Life Through the Universe
  • 2013 July 15: Ubi Crookes, Ibi Lux
  • 2013 July 08: Mind the Gap
  • 2013 July 01: "The Stately Giraffe Would Not Be Visible" -- Cold Dark-Matter, 1894
  • 2013 June 24: Irrlicht
  • 2013 June 17: Ringworld
  • 2013 June 03: Henri Poincaré's The Relativity of Space: An Illustrated, Annotated Edition in six parts, one new part released each day.
  • 2013 May 27: Through the Then-Unpaved Stars, the Turnpike Road (epilogue to A New Approach to Experimental History of Science, concerning the Steampunk movement.)
  • 2013 Apr 08: A New Approach to Experimental History of Science in seven parts, plus an epilogue, released over two months.
  • 2013 Apr. 01: News from the Centre of the Universe
  • 2013 Mar. 11: Hermann Minkowski's Space and Time: An Illustrated, Annotated Edition

• INTERESTING ITEMS ELSEWHERE:
  • Poweroids revisited - an old symbolic approach by J. S. Dowker [2013/07] "Jeffery's 1861 computations using finite difference calculus are resurrected and extended from forward differences to general delta operators ..."
  • Einstein as armchair detective: The case of stimulated radiation by Vasant Natarajan [Resonance 6, 28 (2001)] Walks the reader through Einstein's 1917 radiation paper, the founding document of laser science.
  • The Recurrent Nova T CrB Did Not Erupt in 1842 by Bradley E. Schaefer [The Observatory 133, 81 (2013)] Or, even Sir John Herschel made mistakes.
  • George Gabriel Stokes in love! [Skull in the Stars 2013/06/04]
  • Is mathematical history written by the victors? by Jacques Bair et al. [Notices AMS 60, 886 (2013)]
  • Einstein's "Prague field-equation" -- another perspective by Domenico Giulini [2012/06] Re-examines one of Einstein's non-GR attempts at a theory of gravity.
  • Sur deux formules de Frobenius et Stickelberger et inversion de Lagrange by Roger Gay et al. [2013/06] Old mathematics lives on.
  • Note on Malmstèn's paper De Integralibus quibusdam definitis seriebusque infinitis by Alexander Aycock [2013/06] "We present a proof of the functional equation of the Dirichlet eta-function, which proof seems to be new but follows almost immediately from Malmstèn (1849)."
  • A critique of Sadi Carnot's work and a mathematical theory of the caloric by N. D. Hari Dass [2013/06] A paraphrase of Carnot's work in modern language, but including all of Carnot's assumptions, e.g. the existence of caloric. Cenochronic history-of-science at its best.
  • How do you measure a mountain on the Moon? [True Anomalies 2013/05]
  • The Giants' Shoulders #60: Roundup of history-of-science blogs, 2013 June.

• NEW ENTRIES: PEOPLE:
  • Norman Ferrers: Overly modest Anglican priest-mathematician who became Master of Gonville and Caius and vice-chancellor of the University despite a shocking willingness to award fellowships to non-conformists. He invented Young tableaux half a century before Young, but didn't think anyone would be interested in them. [CLASSICAL MECHANICS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICS; PHYSICS; SPECIAL FUNCTIONS]
  • J. Stuart Jackson: Another clerical mathematician under-rated in his time and forgotten since. [CONICS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICS; PHYSICS;]
  • James Challis: A very distinguished Establishment astrophysicist who took the blame for Britain's failure to discover Neptune, advocated an unpopular hydrodynamic æther theory, and (in his capacity of Anglican clergyman) wrote about the identity of the Beast 666. [ÆTHER; ASTRONOMY; CELESTIAL MECHANICS; FLUID DYNAMICS; METEORS; MOON; PLANETS]

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