When I talk with young people about science and engineering I try to use everyday examples, but often come up with something too complicated, which leads to a lengthy, confusing explanation. This ...
- Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Transform, SIAM, Philadelphia, 425 pp., with M.J. Ablowitz, 1981 (also translated and published in Russian and in Japanese ...
The lead article discusses the water shortage that currently affects southeastern Brazil, which is an increasingly global problem. Research shows the role of the Amazon in creating a ‘vertical river’ ...