Chaos-theory pioneer nabs Abel Prize

Yakov G . Sinai , Abel Prize Laureate 2014

A dynamical billiard is an idealization of the game of billiard, but where the table can have shapes other than the rectangular and even be multidimensional. We use only one billiard ball, and the billiard may even have regions where the ball is kept out. Formally, a dynamical billiard is a dynamical system where a massless and point shaped particle moves inside a bounded region. The particle i...

Abel Prize 2017 for Yves Meyer

Yves Francois Meyer was born July 19th, 1939 in Paris, but he grew up in Tunisia. After his studies at the École Normale Supérieure he was a teacher for three years at the school Prytanée Militaire in La Flèche (Loire Valley) and obtained a position in Strasbourg afterwards. During this period he prepared his PhD which he presented in 1966. Formally Jean-Pierre Kahane was his advisor, but he co...

Chaos/Complexity Theory and Education

Sciences exist to demonstrate the fundamental order underlying nature. Chaos/complexity theory is a novel and amazing field of scientific inquiry. Notions of our everyday experiences are somehow in connection to the laws of nature through chaos/complexity theory’s concerns with the relationships between simplicity and complexity, between orderliness and randomness (Retrieved from http://www.inc...

Jules Gonin and the Nobel Prize: pioneer of retinal detachment surgery who almost received a Nobel Prize in medicine

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