Pages: 175
ISBN: 978-981-3275-82-9 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-981-3276-70-3 (softcover)
A book that enlightens the life of Ahmed H Zewail from his early childhood to his days at CalTech.
Born in Damanhur, Egypt, Ahmed H Zewail grew up with his family, studied at a local primary school and eventually graduated from Alexandria University. After completing his schooling, he went on to teach chemistry to undergraduates at the University of Alexandria.
His contributions are not only to science but also to society. As a pioneer scientist, he returned to Egypt and had his fingerprints on all the initiatives to encourage scientific research and to upgrade the scientific and technological capabilities of his countrymen. He founded the Zewail City for Science and Technology ? a non-profit educational institution for research and innovation in Cairo.
A Nobel Prize winner, inventor of the ground-breaking four dimensional microscopy, and together with his other accolades, Ahmed H Zewail is one of the greatest scientists this century has produced. His foresight for the development of both the scientific and cultural fields in Egypt has made him a brilliant jewel for Egypt and the world.
Zewail : The Historic Fingerprint (Nana Zewail)
Zewail, Pioneer of a New Era of Science (Mahmoud Abdel-Aty)
How did I get to Know Him: (Frouk El Baz)
The Scientific Fingerprints of Dr Ahmed Zewail in the Arab Republic of Egypt (Lotfia El Nadi)
Ahmed Zewail : My Biggest Loss (Mostafa A El Sayed)
My Personal Experience with Dr Zewail (Mohamed Th. Hassan)
Zewail and Myself : Those Were the Days (Yehia Ismail)
Ahmed Zewail : Our Pride (Sultana Nahar)
Ahmed Zewail : A Pioneer Voyager in the Molecular Space-Time! (Sameh Ali
Saad)
The Scientific Efforts of Ahmed Zewail (Lotfia El Nadi)
Science students and professionals in the field of physical chemistry, especially femtochemistry and the general public with interested in science.
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-1-78634-641-4 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-1-78634-657-5 (softcover)
This title is a self-contained follow-up to Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles (2015). Intended for the general reader but including more advanced material and an appendix of technical references for physics students and researchers, it reviews the basics of the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics in its newer incarnation as a fully relativistic, realist interpretation of quantum theory, while embarking on further explorations of the implications of quantum theory. This interpretation is applied to new experiments and alleged 'paradoxes' that are found to be fully explicable once various misconceptions are identified.
There is currently much disagreement about the meaning of quantum theory, as well as confusion about the implications of various experiments such as 'weak measurements,' 'quantum eraser,' and delayed choice. This book provides a clear way forward, presenting new developments and elaborating a promising interpretational approach that has completely nullified earlier objections (such as the Maudlin objection). It also explains why some prominent competing interpretations, such as 'decoherence' in an Everettian ('Many Worlds') approach, do not work as advertised.
Adventures in Quantumland: Exploring Our Unseen Reality offers a fully relativistic interpretation of quantum mechanics with no discontinuity between non-relativistic and relativistic domains and shows how quantum theory allows for free will and for reconciliation of science and spiritual traditions.
Prologue
Part I: Our Transactional Reality:
The Iceberg Revisited
The Transactional Interpretation
Observation and Measurement
The Spacetime Theater
Becoming and The Arrow of Time
Life and Free Will
Science and Spirit
Epilogue
Appendix: Behind the Magician's Curtain
Part II: Selected Papers:
Quantifying Absorption in the Transactional Interpretation (with John Cramer)
On the Status of the Measurement Problem: Recalling the Relativistic Transactional Interpretation
Taking Heisenberg's Potentia Seriously (with Stuart Kauffman and Michael Epperson)
The Relativistic Transactional Interpretation: Immune to the Maudlin Challenge
The Emergence of Spacetime: Transactions and Causal Sets
On Quantum Collapse as a Basis for the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Beyond Complementarity
Bound States as Emergent Quantum Structures
Antimatter in the Direct-Action Theory of Fields
Haag's Theorem as a Reason to Reconsider Direct-Action Theories
Einselection of Pointer Observables: The New H-Theorem?
The Born Rule and Free Will: Why Libertarian Agent-Causal Free Will Is Not
Intended for the general reader but includes more advanced material and an appendix of technical references for physics students and researchers.
Pages: 166
ISBN: 978-981-3275-31-7 (hardcover)
ISBN: 978-981-3275-94-2 (softcover)
A NEW TWIST ON A POPULAR PUZZLE CUBE! Invented by Piet Hein, the Soma cube is one of the most famous mechanical puzzles in the world. The traditional challenge and outcome is to build a cube or other structures from all seven pieces.
CHANGE THE RULES, CHANGE THE OUTCOME! The puzzles in this unique Soma-inspired collection are no longer predicated upon using all seven pieces at one time! By varying the number of pieces, there are many new and versatile puzzle challenges, from all types of recreational mathematics fields. For example, you will find symmetry puzzles, cover-up puzzles, and even fraction puzzles. The chapters are divided according to the number of pieces used; from single-piece puzzles to puzzles requiring a complete set.
WHY USE THE SOMA CUBE? From the moment our creative team changed their rules of engagement for this new collection, the potential puzzle challenges and their solutions became nearly limitless! There is something magical and enchanting in those seven pieces that enabled us to find many puzzles and challenges!
NEW CHALLENGES Most of the puzzles demonstrated within the book are original. Some are based on classic puzzles, as well as more modern ones, modified and presented by using the set of Soma pieces.
LOW COST AND HIGH INTEREST FOR HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT WITH INCREASING COMPLEXITY! This is a unique collection of puzzles ? all you need is a set of the Soma cube. The puzzles range from easy to difficult and they appeal to a wide audience ? all within the reach of the general public. It presents many geometrical and mathematical principles, and makes them easier to understand. However, no special knowledge in mathematics or geometry is required.
Introduction to the Soma Cube:
What is a Soma Cube?
The Puzzle and How to Solve It
The Pieces Parity
How to Use this Book
Chapter One - Single Piece Puzzles:
Hexagon
Six Pointed Star
The Cork
Through the Hole
Chapter One Solutions
Chapter Two - Double Piece Puzzles:
Four in Pairs
Double Layer
Double Triplets
Four Out of Six
Three Symmetric Pairs
V for All!
All Symmetric
Chapter Two Solutions
Chapter Three:
Two Identical Sets
Triplets
Three Together!
Chapter Three Solutions
Chapter Four:
Hole in a Square
A Piece on Top
The Double Cube
The 3 x 5 Rectangle
The Double Heart
The Symmetry Quest
The Bench
Find the Pentominoes!
Triple Pentominoes
Chapter Four Solutions
Chapter Five:
The Bar
The Extra Cube
The Altar
The 2 x 2 Stamp
The Magic-Square Shape
Five Times
The Double Ten
The Small Altar
Four Times Pentominoes
The Pentomino Cube
Chapter Five Solutions
Chapter Six:
The 2 x 3 x 4 Box
The (Im)possible 2 x 2 x 6
The Complete Hexominoes
Symmetry Lines
More Symmetry Lines
The Extra Large Pentominoes
The Missing Cube Shaft
The 8 x 3 constructions
The 2 x 12 constructions
Four of the Same
The Surprising Division
Chapter Six Solutions
Chapter Seven:
The Impossible Cube
The Twins
By the Power of Three
Fractions!
The Symmetric LS
The Symmetric CL
The Divided Cube
The Highest Tower
All Stand Up!
All Flat!
Spacing Squares!
Min/Max Space!
The Balancing Act
Chapter Seven Solutions
Chapter Eight:
The Key Piece Puzzle
The Nine V's Puzzle
Chapter Eight Solutions
Appendixes
Pentominoes
Hexominoes
Puzzle and riddle lovers.
Pages: 150
ISBN: 978-981-3233-70-6 (hardcover)
This lecture notes is based on a sequence of lectures on Reidemeister torsions by V Turaev.
J Milnor showed that Reidemeister torsions and the Alexander polynomials are deeply related. By the surgery formulas of Reidemeister torsions, we can apply them to Dehn surgery problems, namely to lens and Seifert surgery problems, and to amphicheirality problem of a link. Since Reidemeister torsions of rational homology 3-spheres are elements in cyclotomic fields, we need algebraic number theoretical studies.
Recently P Ozsvath and Z Szabo defined the Heegaard Floer homology which is a powerful invariant to study 3-manifolds. It induces the Reidemeister-Turaev torsion. We also explain it here.
Preface
Reidemeister Torsions
Dehn Surgery
Amphicheirality
Algebraic Number Theory
Heegaard Floer Homology
Appendices:
Chinese Remainder Theorem
Proof of Franz Lemma
Reidemeister-Schreier Method
Graduate students and researchers in topology.
Pages: 300
ISBN: 978-981-12-0034-2
This volume is devoted to original research results and survey articles reviewing recent developments in reduction for stochastic PDEs with multiscale as well as application to science and technology, and to present some future research direction. This volume includes a dozen chapters by leading experts in the area, with a broad audience in mind. It should be accessible to graduate students, junior researchers and other professionals who are interested in the subject. We also take this opportunity to celebrate the contributions of Professor Anthony J Roberts, an internationally leading figure on the occasion of his 60th years birthday in 2017.
Geometric Methods for Stochastic Dynamical Systems
Model Reduction in Stochastic Environments
Stochastic Primitive Equations
Optimal Interior Control Problem for a Non-Local Heat Equation
An Averaging Principle for Multi-Valued SDEs Driven by G-Brownian Motion
Multiscale Modelling Couples Patches of Two-Layer Thin Fluid Flow
On Smooth Approximation of Levy Process in Skorokhod Space
Holder Estimates for Solutions of Stochastic Nonlocal Diffusion Equations
The Cauchy Problem for a Generalized Ostrovsky Equation with Positive Dispersion
Errors Estimates on Projective Integration of Expensive Multiscale Stochastic Simulation
Approximation of Stochastic Wave Equations with Singular Perturbation
On the Stochastic Two-Component D-G-H Equations
Students and researchers.