In 1972, Dick Karp, a computer scientist at Berkeley, having read Cook’s esoteric paper, demonstrated that many of the classic computational problems with which he was intimately acquainted—essentially every problem he didn’t know how to solve, drawn from mathematical programming, operations resea...
In: Field theory and non-equilibriumstatistical mechanics” lectures given by John Cardy at the LMS/EPSRC “methods of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics in turbulence” school, University of Warwick from 10-14 July (2006) Anderson, P.W.: Plasmons, Gauge Invariance, and Mass. Phys. Rev. ...
when a parallel beam of light passes through a single slit, the emerging beam is no longer parallel but starts to diverge; this phenomenon is known as diffraction. Given the wavelength of the light and the geometry of the apparatus (i.e., the separation...