Referee Reports I found an interesting presentation by Sami Mitra, associate editor of Physical Review Letters, about the editorial office and the editorial process at PRL. Among some interesting figures about the … ...
#Add new tag #impact factor #long tail #social networks Publish and... perish In the old days, research quality was measured by the number of papers you published. Publishing was a hard process and only few scientists were able to publish several papers per year. However, with … ...
The best job in 2008 was ... mathematician! Good news to fans of the “language of Nature”, mathematics. Wall Street Journal is running an article on what are the best jobs in 2008. The ranking is done “evaluating 200 … ...
#brownian motion #einstein #stochastic Brown's observations on Brownian motion In 1828, Robert Brown published the manuscript entitled “A brief account of microscopical observations made in the months of June, July and August 1827, on the particles contained in the pollen … ...
#news #quotes #Science Science is the only news Science is the only news. When you scan through a newspaper or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same sorry cyclic dramas, the … ...
#arxiv #finance #preprint #stock market New section in the arXiv: Quantitative Finance News from the arXiv: a new section has been created to host preprints about Quantitative Finance. The section (as stated in the press release) intends to fix a problem with existing pre-print … ...
#brownian motion #ito #stochastic differential equation #wiener Introduction to stochastic differential equations Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) are basically inhomogenous ordinary differential equations that depend on an external stochastic process. ...
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#complexity #game theory #nobel prize Is Game Theory a scientific theory? A wonderful quote about the nature of Game Theory Game theory is no doubt wonderful for telling stories. However, it flunks the main test of any scientific theory: The ability to make empirically … ...
#ito #stochastic differential equation #wiener Kiyoshi Itô, 93, dies November was a rather sad month in the world of stochastic differential equations. In the 26th we were suppose to be celebrating the birth of one of the best mathematicians in history, Norbert … ...