CJ on Mathematics and Science

Planck's reasoning was mad, but his madness has that divine quality that only the greatest transitional figures can bring to science. (A...

Ludwig Boltzmann 1844-1906 Lubos on the Reference Frame  recalls the 175th birthday of Ludwig Boltzmann: Yesterday, Ludwig Eduard Bol...

Richard Hamming (1915-98) The mathematician  Richard Hamming said: Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should no...

This is a continuation of the previous post on the role of functional analysis, more precisely the role of the finite element method as a f...

This is an exercise in preparation for participation in a film about the Polish mathematician Stefan Banach who advanced functional anal...

Let me here recall the derivation by a scaling argument of the law of Kolmogorov/Onsager stating that fully developed turbulent velocities a...

In the last two posts a resolution of the Clay Navier-Stokes Prize Problem is presented, a resolution based on digital computation. I have t...

This is a continuation of the previous post proposing a resolution of the Clay Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem with further remarks on the ...

This is a reminder of the resolution of the Clay Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem which I have presented together with Johan Hoffman and Jo...

The (super)human intellect of Euler (1707-83) formulated Euler's equation for fluid flow. The information society is based on compu...