In the fall of 1915, the foundations of physics began to crack. Einstein’s new theory of gravity seemed to imply that it should be possible to create and destroy energy, a result that threatened to ...

Birkhoffian systems represent a natural extension of classical Hamiltonian mechanics, offering a flexible framework to describe the dynamics of nonconservative systems. Emerging from the work of ...

Emmy Noether was praised by Einstein for her work in mathematical physics. Like Einstein, she fled Nazi Germany for the U.S.. A play about her life, "Diving into Math with Emmy Noether," will be ...