Zdzisław Opial---a mathematician 1930--1974

A Mathematician Reads

New York University mathematical physicist Alan Sokal published in the postmodern humanities journal Social Text a parody entitled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity” [1]. His point in doing so was to test whether the field of “cultural studies of science” was seriously lacking in “intellectual standards”. His article is nonsense from start to...

The mathematician as a formalist

Jonathan Borwein: Experimental Mathematician

Jonathan M. Borwein unexpectedly died on 2 August 2016, in London, Ontario, Canada, where he had been visiting on leave from home institution, the University of Newcastle, Australia. Since his death, the present author and Nelson H. F. Beebe of the University of Utah have been collecting Borwein’s many published papers, books, reports and talks, as well as a number of articles written by others...

Generalized diamond-a dynamic opial inequalities

* Correspondence: billur@cankaya. edu.tr Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract We establish some new dynamic Opial-type diamond alpha inequalities in time scales. Our results in special cases yield some of the recent results on Opial’s inequality and also provide new esti...

On a Discrete Opial-type Inequality

The main purpose of the present paper is to establish a new discrete Opial-type inequality. Our result provide a new estimates on such type of inequality.