Encyclopedia - University Of Pisa: Encyclopedia - University Of Pisa
The University of Pisa (Italian Università di Pisa) is one of the most renowned Italian universities. It is located in Pisa, Tuscany. It...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lotka-volterra Equation: Encyclopedia - Lotka-volterra Equation
The Lotka-Volterra equations, also known as the predator-prey equations, are a pair of first order, non-linear, differential equations fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alfred J. Lotka: Encyclopedia - Alfred J. Lotka
Alfred James Lotka (March 2, 1880 - December 5, 1949) was a US mathematician and statistician, most famous for his work in population dyn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michael Polanyi: Encyclopedia Ii - Michael Polanyi - Early Life
Michael was born into a Jewish family in Budapest. His older brother Karl become a famous economist. Their father was an engineer and ent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - University Of Pisa: Encyclopedia Ii - University Of Pisa - Organization Of The University
Nowadays the University of Pisa consists of 11 faculties and 56 departments. These faculties offers a notable amount of courses in their ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Egon Orowan: Encyclopedia Ii - Egon Orowan - Life
Born in the Obuda district of Budapest, Orowan's father, Berthold, was a mechanical engineer and factory manager, and his mother, Josze S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dislocation: Encyclopedia Ii - Dislocation - Dislocation Geometry
Any dislocation can be described by the Burgers vector and the dislocation line. However, an introduction to these and other terms used t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lotka-volterra Equation: Encyclopedia Ii - Lotka-volterra Equation - Dynamics Of The System
In the model system, the predators thrive when there are plentiful prey but, ultimately, outstrip their food supply and decline. As the p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Functional Analysis: Encyclopedia Ii - Functional Analysis - Normed Vector Spaces
In the modern view, functional analysis is seen as the study of complete normed vector spaces over the real or complex numbers. Such spac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dislocation: Encyclopedia Ii - Dislocation - Dislocations Slip And Plasticity
Until the 1930s, one of the enduring challenges of materials science was to explain plasticity in microscopic terms. A naive attempt to c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dislocation: Encyclopedia Ii - Dislocation - Observation Of Dislocations
When a dislocation line intersects the surface of a metallic material, the associated strain field locally increases the relative suscept...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Functional Analysis: Encyclopedia Ii - Functional Analysis - Major And Foundational Results
These are important results of functional analysis: The uniform boundedness principle is a result on sets of operators with tight bounds...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lotka-volterra Equation: Encyclopedia Ii - Lotka-volterra Equation - The Equations
The usual form of the equations is: where y is the number of some predator (for example, dingoes); x is the number of its prey (fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michael Polanyi: Encyclopedia Ii - Michael Polanyi - Physical Chemistry
Polanyi's scientific interests were diverse, embracing chemical kinetics, x-ray diffraction and the absorption of gases at solid surfaces...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Michael Polanyi: Encyclopedia Ii - Michael Polanyi - Philosophy Of Science
From the middle years of the Nineteen-Thirties Polanyi began to articulate his opposition to the prevailing positivist account of science...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lotka-volterra Equation: Encyclopedia Ii - Lotka-volterra Equation - Physical Meanings Of The Equations
When multiplied out, the equations take a form useful for physical interpretation. Lotka-Volterra equation - Prey. The prey equation be...   » Read the article