Posts in Category ‘Mathematics’
Maths That Rings a Bell
If you have spent any time in the English countryside, you may have heard the sounds of bellringers merrily chiming from a nearby church tower – a peculiarly British pursuit in which, given a set of bells tuned to different notes and sufficiently skilled bellringers, a variety of tunes can be performed. But is there a mathematical aspect to bellringing too? Read more
Caffarelli und die freien Ränder
Der argentinische Mathematiker Luis Caffarelli (Jahrgang 1948), der heute an der University of Texas in Austin arbeitet, erhält in diesem Jahr den Abelpreis „für seine wegweisenden Beiträge zur Regularitätstheorie partieller Differenzialgleichungen, insbesondere freie Randwertprobleme und die Monge-Ampère-Gleichung“. Read more