Title:
Mathematical Mysteries of the Periodic Table
Mathematical Mysteries of the Periodic Table
| dc.contributor.author | Baez, John | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Physics | en_US |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | University of California, Riverside. Dept. of Mathematics | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-04-15T16:11:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-04-15T16:11:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-04-02 | |
| dc.description | Presented on April 2, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. in the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB), Room 1128. | en_US |
| dc.description | John Baez is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside, who also works at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, in Singapore. His Internet column “This Week’s Finds” dates back to 1993 and is sometimes called the world’s first blog. Baez used to work on quantum gravity and pure mathematics. In 2010, concerned about climate change and the future of the planet, he switched to working on a general theory of networks that appear in human-engineered and biological systems. | en_US |
| dc.description | Runtime: 65:35 minutes | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Why do atoms behave the way they do? Why do electrons form “shells,” as seen in the periodic table? Why does the first shell hold 2 electrons, the second 8, and the third 18: twice the square numbers 1, 4, and 9? It took many years to solve these mysteries, and a lot of detective work in chemistry, physics, and ultimately – once the relevant laws of physics were known – mathematics. Other mysteries remain unsolved, like the mass of the heaviest possible element. This talk will give a quick tour of these puzzles and some of the answers. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 65:35 minutes | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/60975 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Frontiers in Science Lecture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Hydrogen atom | en_US |
| dc.subject | Periodic table | en_US |
| dc.subject | Quantum mechanics | en_US |
| dc.title | Mathematical Mysteries of the Periodic Table | en_US |
| dc.type | Moving Image | |
| dc.type.genre | Lecture | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | College of Sciences | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Frontiers in Science Lectures | |
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