RIP Mathematician John Nash and Wife Alicia
Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994 for his work in game theory. He had just returned from Norway this week after accepting the Abel Prize for Mathematics for his work on partial differential equations.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/john-nash-beautiful-mind-mathematician-wife-killed-jersey/story?id=31268512
based on was still alive.
Quote: gordonm888Anyone who has ever driven on the New Jersey Turnpike or taken a NJ cab will not be shocked. But it is a shame that a couple in their 80's were both killed in such a way - completely blameless victims. (nobody in the world wears seatbelts in the back seat of a NJ cab - you would have no idea what kind of body fluids would be staining your clothes even if you could find the seat belts and put them on).
You might even find Jimmy Hoffa.
I read a lot of his and John Von Neumann's game theory work. The early game theory before it all went into differential equations.
Now that I think about it, don't a lot of the great discoveries combine the spatial with the algebraic or logical to an extent. As with also Einstein's tensor analysis, and Schrödinger's wave equation?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dingerQuote:The first publications of Schrödinger about atomic theory and the theory of spectra began to emerge only from the beginning of the 1920s, after his personal acquaintance with Sommerfeld and Wolfgang Pauli and his move to Germany. In January 1921, Schrödinger finished his first article on this subject, about the framework of the Bohr-Sommerfeld effect of the interaction of electrons on some features of the spectra of the alkali metals. Of particular interest to him was the introduction of relativistic considerations in quantum theory. In autumn 1922 he analyzed the electron orbits in an atom from a geometric point of view, using methods developed by the mathematician Hermann Weyl (1885–1955). This work, in which it was shown that quantum orbits are associated with certain geometric properties, was an important step in predicting some of the features of wave mechanics. Earlier in the same year he created the Schrödinger equation of the relativistic Doppler effect for spectral lines, based on the hypothesis of light quanta and considerations of energy and momentum. He liked the idea of his teacher Exner on the statistical nature of the conservation laws, so he enthusiastically embraced the articles of Bohr, Kramers, and Slater, which suggested the possibility of violation of these laws in individual atomic processes (for example, in the process of emission of radiation). Despite the fact that the experiments of Hans Geiger and Walther Bothe soon cast doubt on this, the idea of energy as a statistical concept was a lifelong attraction for Schrödinger and he discussed it in some reports and publications.[19]
NYC cabs have partitions to protect the driver.
Passengers who don't wear seatbelts end up smashing their faces into the partition or the credit card machine during a crash.
It is so common that doctors in New York call it 'Partition Face'
Cops had their own version of it, and called it a 'Screen Test'.
But that was a much different thing.
