I am quite proud of my Erdös number of 4. An Erdös number of 4 means via a trail of 4 papers I can reach the prolific Hungarian-born mathematician Paul Erdös. Erdös published papers with an astonishing 511 other mathematicians. The path of papers is here, but basically I have written a paper with a good friend Jon […]
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Argentinosaurus is believed to be the largest land animal to have ever lived. It was a dinosaur and at maybe 100 tons and 30 m, it was a very big dinosaur. I wanted to know the largest land animal for the lectures on biological physics I am giving this coming semester, and Google and Wikipedia provided. Anyway, in the lectures my question will be: Why was the largest animal 100 tons, not say 10 tons, or 1000 tons?
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All the above featured on the open day poster covering nuclear physics research in the Department. For those not around when Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young’s album Deja Vu came out in 1970, the connection is the lines in the album’s song Woodstock ‘We are stardust, we are golden/We are billion year old carbon’. This is true, […]
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The Harvard Prof George Church seems to have hit on a new marketing ploy for his upcoming book Regenesis. You may have read it in The Guardian, so it looks like it is working. He has produced it in a new format: DNA. Now, of course a book is just information, which is why you can […]
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This is a quote by Richard Feynmann. I really like it. It is easy to just say I understand something, but if you can make something from scratch, and it works, then at some level you really must understand it. I was reminded of it when I started on some course notes for a course […]
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