I'll not be on-line starting tomorrow until the end of the month in observance of the Holy Week. That will be four days without blog :-p I am half-geek after all!
In the News: The physics of classical poetry
A superficial knowledge of the Greek language - alpha particles, beta decay, gamma rays and so on all the way to Omega Centauri - is essential for any scientist. But Ricardo Mansilla, a mathematician at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has taken a much deeper interest in this ancient language. Working with Edward Bush, a classicist, Mansilla has used methods from statistical physics to analyse the difference between classical Greek and Latin poetry (arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203135). Mansilla and Bush hope that their techniques may be able to shed new light on unanswered questions about two of the most famous poems of all time - the Iliad and the Odyssey.
In the News: The physics of classical poetry
A superficial knowledge of the Greek language - alpha particles, beta decay, gamma rays and so on all the way to Omega Centauri - is essential for any scientist. But Ricardo Mansilla, a mathematician at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has taken a much deeper interest in this ancient language. Working with Edward Bush, a classicist, Mansilla has used methods from statistical physics to analyse the difference between classical Greek and Latin poetry (arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203135). Mansilla and Bush hope that their techniques may be able to shed new light on unanswered questions about two of the most famous poems of all time - the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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