Many-Particle Systems in Mathematics and Physics

2007 ◽  
pp. 277-323
Keyword(s):  
Particle Systems ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

Birds and frogs in mathematics and physics

2010 ◽  
Vol 180 (8) ◽  
pp. 859 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Dyson
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics And Physics

Ingenious Mathematical Insights

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matheus Pereira Lobo
Keyword(s):  
New Type ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new type of microarticle, considered for publishing in the Open Journal of Mathematics and Physics (OJMP), dubbed "Mathematical Insight."

Statistical 3D Analysis and Modeling of Complex Particle Systems based on Tomographic Image Data

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 787-796
Author(s):  
O. Furat ◽  
B. Prifling ◽  
D. Westhoff ◽  
M. Weber ◽  
V. Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Image Data ◽  
Particle Systems ◽  
3D Analysis ◽  
Tomographic Image ◽  
Complex Particle

Paul Valéry’s Vitalism: Life and Entropy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Life Sciences ◽  
Distinct Type ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Inanimate Matter ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Unique Status ◽  
Mathematics And Physics

Abstract Paul Valéry’s interest in the life sciences is an important yet little-studied aspect of his work. Although Valéry was known primarily as a reader of mathematics and physics, his fascination with the life sciences has often been ignored or regarded as mere curiosity. This article examines Valéry’s writing on the subject of biology by focusing on the unique status he accords to the notion of life. In both his theoretical and poetic writings, Valéry addresses the notion of life as a category endowed with distinct ontological attributes — as a phenomenon that encompasses a distinct type of order. Life, as an independent force, is capable of resisting and even reversing the principle of entropy, which Valéry regards as a universal tendency towards degradation and dispersion that affects all inanimate matter. Valéry’s thought thus exhibits a complicated yet clear affinity with the intellectual tradition known as vitalism. The article discusses this affinity by analysing the presence of vitalist ideas and imagery in Valéry’s corpus, giving special attention to his most expressly ‘biological’ work, the essay ‘L’Homme et la coquille’ (‘The Man and the Seashell’).

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