Known as the father of descriptive geometry, Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) was born in Beaune, Burgundy in France. Attending college at an early age, Monge showed mathematical talent early on. He drew a ...
This geometry, Berry realized, gives quantum particles a kind of memory. At the time, Berry was investigating a very simple system: the quantum state of a particle, such as a neutron, in a ...
This graduate textbook offers a self-contained introduction to the concepts and techniques of logarithmic geometry, a key tool for analyzing compactification and degeneration in algebraic geometry and ...