Alexei Miller, The Romanov Empire and Nationalism

"The birth of the hospital in the Byzantine Empire". By Timothy S. Miller. Essay review.

Dr Miller is a learned and enterprising historian with a fascinating theme. He shows beyond any doubt that the Western hospital tradition goes back to the early Byzantine Empire in the fourth century AD; that, even in its earliest form, the hospital provided for far more than just the treatment of the sick; that by the seventh century, wards in some large metropolitan hospitals were not only di...

The Romanov Theorem Revised

Let P be the set of all primes and P 2 = P ∪ {p 1 p 2 : p 1 , p 2 ∈ P}. We prove that the sumset 2 P + P 2 = {2 p + q : p ∈ P, q ∈ P 2 } has a positive lower density.

Alexei A. Abrikosov - Nobel Lecture

In 1950, Vitalii Ginzburg and Lev Landau published their famous paper on the theory of superconductivity [1]. The approach was based on the general theory of the second order phase transitions proposed by Landau in 1937 [2]. There Landau introduced the main variable, the so called “order parameter” which was finite below the transition and zero above it. Different phase transitions had differen...

Globish and the empire.

Arabesk: Music and nationalism