The Diffusion Tensor Literary Review

Previously I blogged about some biography book series featuring scientists, notably here and here .  The latter post mentioned the Blackwel...

Earlier this month, I learned that the Fluids Engineering Division (FED) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is celebrati...

Today I learned that the Boston University mathematician and educator, Robert L. Devaney, died in November of last year.  He was especially...

DTLR has been a regular reader of Physics Today , published by the American Institute of Physics, since the early 1990s.  Since then, PT ha...

I have just learned that 2026 has been declared "The Year of Mathematics"or YoM2026 , by the Conference Board on Mathematical Soci...

Last month's SIAM News featured a front-page, above-the-fold article by Prof. John Bush of MIT, "Shifting the Classical-Quantum Bo...

I have just finished reading The Grand Design , by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (New York:  Random House).  The book was originally ...