The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) established the Ernmy Noether Lectures to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences. These one-hour expository lectures are presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings each January. Emmy Noether was one of the great mathematicians of her time, someone who worked and struggled for what she loved and believed in. Her life and work remain a tremendous inspiration.
Explorer, navigational expert, mathematician, scientist and astronomer Thomas Harriot was born in Oxford about 1560. In 1577 he entered St. Mary's Hall (a subsidiary of Oriel College) and in 1580, shortly after he was graduated B.A., he joined the household of Walter Ralegh. There he prepared Arcticon, a navigational text which has not survived. He also encouraged Ralegh to follow in the footsteps of Sir Humphrey Gilbert in exploring and colonizing the New World. After Gilbert's death in 1583, Ralegh, with Harriot's help, prepared for an expedition to America. Although Ralegh hoped to command the 1584 voyage, Queen Elizabeth would not permit him to do so. Harriot may have gone on this voyage because there is some evidence that it was at this time that he learned the Algonquian language.
Thomas Hariet (1560-1621) was an explorer, navigational expert, mathematician, scientist and astronomer. This biographical site includes an essays on the life and contributions of Hariet, a bibliography and Hariet's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. The latter is in both html format and jpeg image format, and thus the text is searchable though it is broken into individual paragraphs. The "True Report" is accompanied by a textual analysis. Finally, the site is complemented by outside links that are related to Thomas Hariet.
Branch Foundations
Each branch or field of mathematics may have its own foundational elements, special to the field. These may be the fundamental concepts investigated in the field, fundamental results on which most other results are based, or pervasive methods.
The Tech is a cosmopolitan museum singularly focused on technology—how it works and the way that it is changing every aspect of the way we work, live, play and learn. Its people-and-technology focus and the integration of advanced technologies into visitor experiences and infrastructure, distinguishes it from other science centers.
On New Year's Eve 1999, when we flip from 31/12/99 to 01/01/00, many computers won't know what Year 00 is and will assume either it's 1900 or nil-input.
This is an important issue that must be examined. Any company, organization, or government that doesn't take the time to look at how their systems will operate in the Year 00 is inviting disaster.
But ... most companies, organizations, and governments are doing or have already done so. The only reason to panic or worry would be if no one was doing anything about it. The issue does indeed exist; it's just not as gigantic a problem as it has been inflated to be.
Timeline: Beginning with the Age of Discovery, this resource lists events chronologically and provides an excellent overview and context for events occuring in the nuclear age.
Fiber optics is a concept that amazes many people. To fully understand the concept, the composition of light needs to be examined. Light has been characterized by six major theories over the past 3,000 years. The six theories are known as:
1. The tactile theory
2. The emission theory
3. The corpuscular theory
4. The wave theory
5. The electromagnetic theory
6. The quantum theory
For over two thousand years people have thought about the fundamental particles from which all matter is made, starting with the gradual development of atomic theory, followed by a deeper understanding of the quantized atom, leading to the recent theory of the Standard Model.
We invite you to explore this history of particle physics with a focus on the scientists and thinkers who helped shape the field of particle physics. The four sections are arranged chronologically.
Report by potters of the Koomas caste that the surgeon Susrata grafted new noses created from skin flaps. 1 pg.21 (try to locate an Indian Image instead) India 1
15 AD Report of Saint Peter replacing the young Agatha's breasts, which were cut off as punishment by Roman guards. 1
Salt is physiologically absolutely necessary for human life, but in the past prior to the Industrial Revolution the known mineral salt sources were limited so much so, that its supply was a critical demographic power factor for most communities, until industrial means of extraction from brines were devised. It was only available as visible and exposed rock outcrops in arid regions, or as dried out salt cake on the shores of some seas and salt lakes. In areas with wet climates, the protruding salt dissolved making it almost impossible to discover. It is probably this, more than for any other reason, that many of the great civilisations first developed near deserts and desert climates, for example the Mediterranean region, at the edges of the "arid" zones.
