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'Magic is No Magic'

The Wonderful World of Simon Stevin

By: Jozef T. Devreese,Guido Vanden Berghe

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The Wonderful World of Simon Stevin

By: Jozef T. Devreese,Guido Vanden Berghe

This book gives a comprehensive picture of the activities and the creative heritage of Simon Stevin, who made outstanding contributions to various fields of science, in particular physics and mathematics. Among the striking spectrum of his ingenious achievements, it is worth emphasizing that Simon Stevin is rightly considered as the father of the system of decimal fractions as it is in use today. Stevin also urged the universal use of decimal fractions along with standardization in coinage, measures and weights. This was a most visionary proposal. Stevin was the first since Archimedes to make a significant new contribution to statics and hydrostatics. He truly was "homo universalis." The impact of Stevin's work has been multilateral and worldwide, including literature (William Shakespeare), science (from Christian Huygens to Richard Feynman), politics (Thomas Jefferson) and many other fields. Thomas Jefferson, together with Alexander Hamilton and Robert Morris, advocated introducing the decimal monetary units in the USA with reference to the book "De Thiende" by S. Stevin and in particular to the English translation of the book: "Disme: The Art of Tenths" by Robert Norton. In accordance with the title of this translation, the name of the first silver coin issued in the USA in 1792 was 'disme' (since 1837 the spelling changed to ('dime'). It was considered as a symbol of national independence of the USA.

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1845643917

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Supercomputers in Theoretical and Experimental Science

By: Jozef T. Devreese,Piet Van Camp

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Supercomputers in Theoretical and Experimental Science

By: Jozef T. Devreese,Piet Van Camp

The International Workshop on "The Use of Super computers in Theoretical Science" took place from July 30 till August 1, 1984, at the Conference Center of the "Priorij Corsendonk", close to the city of Antwerpen, Belgium. During the past decade computational science has developed itself to a third methodology besides the experimental and theoretical sciences. This remarkable evolution was only possible due to a drastic increase of the computational power of present day computers. Indeed, computational physics and chemistry as such is certainly not new, but it was only during the past ten years or so that realistic problems could be solved numerically to a sufficient degree of accuracy. During this workshop the state-of-the-art in high speed computation was presented by a team of lecturers who are well known for their competence in this field. It is a pleasure to thank several organizations and companies who made this workshop possible. First of all, the main sponsors: the Belgian National Science Found ation (NFWO-FNRS) and the "Universitaire Instelling Ant werpen". Next, the co-sponsors: Agfa-Gevaert N. V., Control Data Belgium and the Belgian Ministry of Education. Special thanks are due to Dr. P.E. Van Camp and Drs. H. Nachtegaele for the practical organization of this workshop. I would also like to thank Mrs. H. Evans for typing the manuscripts and for preparing the author and subject index. v Last but not least I express my gratitude to Mr.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468450212

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Electronic Structure, Dynamics, and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter

By: Jozef T. Devreese,Piet Van Camp

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Electronic Structure, Dynamics, and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter

By: Jozef T. Devreese,Piet Van Camp

The 1984 Advanced Study Institute on "Electronic Structure, Dynamics and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter" took place at the Corsendonk Conference Center, close to the City of Antwerpen, from July 16 till 27, 1984. This NATO Advanced Study Institute was motivated by the research in my Institute, where, in 1971, a project was started on "ab-initio" phonon calculations in Silicon. I~ is my pleasure to thank several instances and people who made this ASI possible. First of all, the sponsor of the Institute, the NATO Scientific Committee. Next, the co-sponsors: Agfa-Gevaert, Bell Telephone Mfg. Co. N.V., C & A, Esso Belgium·, CDC Belgium, Janssens Pharmaceutica, Kredietbank and the Scientific Office of the U.S. Army. Special thanks are due to Dr. P. Van Camp and Drs. H. Nachtegaele, who, over several months, prepared the practical aspects of the ASI with the secretarial help of Mrs. R.-M. Vandekerkhof. I also like to. thank Mrs. M. Cuyvers who prepared and organized the subject and material index and Mrs. H. Evans for typing-assist ance. I express particular gratitude to Mrs. F. Nedee, who, like in 1981 and 1982, has put the magnificent Corsendonk Conference Center at our disposal and to Mr. D. Van Der Brempt, Director of the Corsendonk Conference Center, for the efficient way in which he and his staff took care of the practical organization at the Conference Center.

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1475708998

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Advances in Polaron Physics

By: Alexandre S. Alexandrov,Jozef T. Devreese

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Advances in Polaron Physics

By: Alexandre S. Alexandrov,Jozef T. Devreese

This book reviews recent developments in the field of polarons, starting with the basics and covering a number of active directions of research. It integrates theory and experimental results.

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3642018963

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Popular religion, liturgy and evangelizaton

By: Jozef Lamberts

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Popular religion, liturgy and evangelizaton

By: Jozef Lamberts

(Peeters 1998)

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9042905778

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9789042905771

Elementary Excitations in Solids, Molecules, and Atoms

Part A

By: Jozef T. Devreese,A. B. Kunz,T. C. Collins

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Elementary Excitations in Solids, Molecules, and Atoms

Part A

By: Jozef T. Devreese,A. B. Kunz,T. C. Collins

The Advanced Study Institute on 'Elementary Excitations in Solids, Molecules, and Atoms' was held at the University of Antwerp (U.I.A.) from June 18th till June 30th 1973. The In stitute was sponsored by NATO. Co-sponsors were: Agfa-Gevaert N.V. (Mortsel - Belgium), Bell Telephone Mfg. Co. (Antwerp Belgium), the National Science Foundation (Washington D.C. - U.S.A.) and the University of Antwerp (U.I.A.). A total of 120 lecturers and participants attended the Institute. Over the last few years, substantial progress has been made in the description of the elementary excitations of the elec tronic and vibrational systems and their interactions. Parallel with this, the experimentalists have obtained outstanding re sults, partly as a result of availability of coherent light sour ces from the far infrared through the visible region, and partly because of the availability of synchrotron radiation sources in the soft X-ray region. The results of today will lead to fur ther progress over the next years. It was the purpose of this NATO Advanced Study Institute to present astate of the art, namely a survey of experiment and theory.

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1468428209

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Advances in Polaron Physics

By: Alexandre S. Alexandrov,Jozef T. Devreese

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Advances in Polaron Physics

By: Alexandre S. Alexandrov,Jozef T. Devreese

This book reviews recent developments in the field of polarons, starting with the basics and covering a number of active directions of research. It integrates theory and experimental results.

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'Magic is No Magic'

The Wonderful World of Simon Stevin

By: Jozef T. Devreese,Guido Vanden Berghe

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Electronic Structure, Dynamics, and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter

By: Jozef T. Devreese,Piet Van Camp

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'Magic is No Magic'

'Magic is No Magic'

Supercomputers in Theoretical and Experimental Science

Supercomputers in Theoretical and Experimental Science

Electronic Structure, Dynamics, and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter

Electronic Structure, Dynamics, and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter

Advances in Polaron Physics

Advances in Polaron Physics

Popular religion, liturgy and evangelizaton

Popular religion, liturgy and evangelizaton

Elementary Excitations in Solids, Molecules, and Atoms

Elementary Excitations in Solids, Molecules, and Atoms

Advances in Polaron Physics

Advances in Polaron Physics

'Magic is No Magic'

'Magic is No Magic'

Electronic Structure, Dynamics, and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter

Electronic Structure, Dynamics, and Quantum Structural Properties of Condensed Matter

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