Fractional calculus has reshaped science and technology since its first appearance in a letter received to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz from Guil-laume de l’Hôpital the year 1695 [...]

MELANIE SCHNELL, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg, Germany; Max-PlanckInstitut für Kernphysik, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; UNDINE ERLEKAM, GERT VON HELDEN, GERARD MEIJER, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, 14195 Berlin, Germany; PHILIP R. BUNKER, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada; JENS-UWE GRABOW, Institut für Physikalische C...

Piotr WILCZEK, Institute of Mathematics, Poznan University of Technology, [email protected] “Eadem sunt quorum unum potest substitui alteri salva veritate”. This famous dictum was stated by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in his "Discourse on Methaphysics" and is now termed Leibniz Law of the Identity of Indiscernibles (PII) after him. This principle is a fragment of Leibniz’s analytical ontology....

Detlef Weigel, a native of Germany and naturalized US citizen, is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, where he did his PhD work. In between, he was a postdoc at Caltech and a faculty member at the Salk Institute. His main interest in recent years has been genetic variation in plants on a genomeand species-wide scale. He is a recent recipient of...

The early history of the invention of the steam engine shows without doubt that the British Royal Society, including Isaac Newton personally, deliberately prevented the industrial and naval applications of steam power for nearly 1 00 years. In fact, the Royal Society was so intent on burying Denis Papin's 1690 invention of a paddle-wheel-driven steamship, worked out in collaboration with Gottfr...