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  • 29 Apr 2021
    Kirill Krasnov

    What is Gravity?

    Kirill Krasnov author of “Formulations of General Relativity” asks the question ‘What is Gravity?’

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  • 29 Apr 2021
    Michael Townsen Hicks, Roger Davies, Rafael Alves Batista, David Sloan

    Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe

    We only have one universe. On the face of it, the existence of life, complexity, and structure in our universe seems to be lucky or to call out for explanation. When we look more closely, the physical causes of these important phenomena appear to be balanced on a knife-edge. Fine-Tuning in the Physical Universe formulates these questions and explores the answers in the context of many sub-disciplines of physics.

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  • 19 Apr 2021
    Brian Kennett, Andreas Fichtner

    Exploiting Seismic Waveforms: Correlation, Heterogeneity and Inversion

    Brian Kennett and Andreas Fichtner met when Brian was visiting the University of Munich from Australia on a Humboldt Research Award. They have since collaborated on a number of papers, mostly involving some aspect of seismic waveform inversion for the determination of structure. In the nearly twenty years since the publication of Brian’s two volume […]

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  • 16 Apr 2021

    What have Mathematics and Statistics ever done for you?

    By Graham Robertson Senior Marketing Executive, Cambridge University Press How much do you know about the influence of mathematics and statistics? April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month, so we thought we would share a quick snapshot… You probably know that secure online shopping and private messaging on your mobile or cell phone would not […]

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  • 16 Apr 2021
    Steve Young

    Talking to Machines

    Talking to machines is becoming commonplace. We routinely tell our smart speakers what to play next, we tell our satnavs where we want to go, we ask our phones general knowledge questions, we dictate messages to friends directly from our smartwatches, and much more. Slowly but surely the conversational agents that recognise and respond to […]

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  • 8 Apr 2021
    Arthur Rizzi, Jesper Oppelstrup

    100 Years of Aircraft Aerodynamic Design: from guesswork to optimal mathematical precision

    The figure above presents a thumbnail history of the airplane’s aerodynamic development over the twentieth century, including some of the significant contributors who helped to bring it about. This historical overview parallels the organization of our recently published book Aerodynamical Design of Aircraft by Computational Software. We outlined just a hint of this rich history […]

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  • 8 Apr 2021
    Wallace Arthur

    Martian helicopter, Martian atmosphere, Martian life?

    Wallace Arthur, author of The Biological Universe, examines the link between the flight of the Mars helicopter Ingenuity and the possible existence of past life on the red planet.

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  • 8 Apr 2021
    Andri M. Gretarsson

    Opinion: Moving beyond prescriptive physics laboratory instruction

    Andri M. Gretarsson author of "A First Course in Laboratory Optics" considers that in order to bridge the gap between demonstrating theory and testing theory, a change of emphasis in undergraduate laboratories is required.

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