Mathematical People

Formation of Iapetus’ Extreme Albedo Dichotomy by Exogenically Triggered Thermal Ice Migration

“…Stars on the model B net deposition plot indicate albedo instabilities discussed in the text. The bottom panel shows the actual albedo distribution on Iapetus, derived from a mosaic of Cassini images(43). The albedo scale is indicated by the scale bar, although the Iapetus mosaic is not photometrically accurate and is scaled very approximately using the CIRS bright-and dark-terrain albedos that we determined.…”

Some stochastic chaotic attractors with global derivative and stochastic fractal mapping: Existence, uniqueness and applications

“…It is also known that common theme in oldest African traditions, including their architecture, is the use of fractal scaling, for example, small parts of their architectural structure tended to look similar to larger parts; we can mention hare circular village made of circular houses. [12][13][14] However, the mathematical underpinning the study of fractal started to have a clear form in the 17th century when Leibniz pondered recursive self-similarity. Finally, the concept of random walk has been used in many field; in this paper, our aim is to combine a chaos model, fractal mapping with random walk.…”

Mathematician's call for interdisciplinary research effort

“…The typical scientific profile of the psychologist is that of a person inclined toward the social, empirical and practical, a team worker in research (Norwich, 2000), who perhaps struggled in school with formal mathematics. By contrast, the mathematician tends to be an individual researcher more inclined toward the abstract and theoretical (Albers & Alexanderson, 2008). Thus far, mathematicians have found nothing to model, apply and provide in the fields of psychological investigation, except for measuring, scaling and predicting through the methods of inferential statistics addressed to empirical studies (Coombs, 1951;Luce, 1995;Mazur, 2006).…”