Three of the classic "founding fathers" of sociology (Comte, Marx and Tocqueville) were contemporary observers of the French Revolution of 1848. In addition, another important theoretical tradition ...

The evolution of industries and technology over the past century has been momentous. We could never have imagined the way our lives would look now back in the early 1900s. However, the ideas and ...

In contrast to classical theory, quantum theory has the remarkable property that the state space of every system has continuously many pure states. These are states that can be seen as states of ...

Enzymes are macromolecular biological catalysists that lead most of chemical reactions in living organisms. The main focus of enzymology lies on enzymes themselves, whereas the role of water motions ...

This paper takes issue with Don Patinkin, who recently argued that the simultaneous equations of classical economic theory are necessarily inconsistent, and that the classical attempt to determine ...

In his discussion of accelerated motion on page 60 of "The Meaning of Relativity," Albert Einstein made an approximation that allowed him to develop the theory of relativity further. Einstein ...

Susskind and Friedman follow their collaboration on Quantum Mechanics by probing the mathematical nitty-gritty of field theory and Einstein’s theory of special relativity in the third installment of ...

Journey into one of the most pivotal mysteries in physics—the Ultraviolet Catastrophe. At the dawn of the 20th century, scientists believed classical physics could explain everything, from light to ...

It is widely accepted that many phase transitions do not follow nucleation pathways as envisaged by the classical nucleation theory. Many substances can traverse intermediate states before arriving at ...