Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We consider incompressible 2d Navier-Stokes equations in the whole plane with external nonconservative forces fields. The initial data and ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 30, No. 6 (Dec., 1993), pp. 1558-1573 (16 pages) The convergence of the Monte Carlo method for numerical integration can often be improved by replacing random ...