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Obi-Wan Kenobi
“may the Force be with you”
Mayan abacus Yupana Calculator, Inca
Chinese abacus
BrahmaguptaIndia
598–668
Uzbekistan / Persia780 – 850
�Founder of Algebra
�On the Calculation with
Hindu Numerals
�translated into Latin as Algoritmi de numero
Indorum
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā
al-Khwārizmī
Aristotle
384 to 322 BCE
Why →→→→ How
The Alchymist, in Search
of the Philosophers' Stone
by Joseph Wright of Derby,
1771
1661 Robert Boyle
(gas volume varies
inversely to its pressure)
1787, Antoine Lavoisier
(matter is conserved)
Nicolas Flamel
France
(1330 – 1418)
(died at age 88)
Imaginative portrait.
Abraham the Jew: Levite, Astronomer & philosopher.
To the Jewish people that is in exile in
France due to the fury of God. Hello in
the name of the God of Israel.
Prophecy
Metal transformation
City of Leon
the substance of the
eternal spirit emerged.
Aristotle
384 to 322 BCE
Why →→→→ How
Galileo Galilei
1564 – 1642
Sir Isaac Newton
1643 – 1727
Aristotle
Why →→→→ How
Galileo
challenge Greek philosophy
Newton
science = how ; religion = why
Sir Isaac Newton
1643 – 1727
Force ~ motion change
Why bother?
Albert Einstein 1879 – 1955
Moving objects
?1 + 1 = 1.9
E = m c2
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko speaking at the Kremlin in 1935
Claiming x3 to x4 wheat crop
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilovworld's largest collection of
plant seedsNovember 1887 (Moscow city)
– January 1943 (Moscow prison)(of malnutrition)
Isaak Agol,
Solomon Levit,
Grigorii Levitskii,
Georgii Karpechenko,
Georgii Nadson,
Nikolai Vavilov
Many more …
Imprisoned and died
Due to Lysenko
NSF Grant No. DMR-0619458
NSF Grant No. CBET-0960229
Guillaume Amontons,
1663 – 1705
Friction ~ load
Charles-Augustin
de Coulomb
1736 – 1806
David Tabor
(23 October 1913 –
26 November 2005)
Friction ~ contact area
Lamar University, Dec 2009
Drop Friction ~ Inverse of Load
Drop Friction ~ Inverse of contact area
Centrifugal Adhesion Balance CAB
Centrifugal Adhesion Balance, CAB
Waiting!
NSF Grant No. DMR-0619458
NSF Grant No. CBET-0960229
Thank YOU!!!
