Swept in the seas, sails torn and flailing / By this relentless Wind of Fate
Unlocking the Secret Box: Why Turbulence is Not Chaos, but a Symphony of Primes Alexander Migdal Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ alexandermigdal.com God does not play dice with the universe. — Albert Einstein (1926) When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity?
If a poorly dressed guy grabs your wallet at a knife point in a dark alley we call it robbery. If a group of scary looking people wearing ski masks threatens lives of hundreds of innocent hostages and demands million dollars ransom we call it terrorism. If the team of
Democracy is as old as Geometry, but unlike that Greek invention, Democracy did not evolve since Euclid times. While Geometry was constantly perfecting, undergoing revisions and discovering new concepts, Democracy was frozen in time. After proven to be unstable against civil war in ancient Rome it was succeeded by monarchy
Talk at Mitchell Feigenbaum Conference The initiation into Landau School of Thought started with famous Theoretical Minimum Exam. This was a sequence of increasing tests of that rare mix of knowledge, durability and passion, which was necessary to be accepted and survive the School. I was lucky to be initiated
To Tanya: Swept in the sea, sails torn and flailing By this relentless Wind of Fate, We never know where we are sailing: We do not waver we go straight. In hope for unexpected wonder To save us while it s not too late, To stop the ship from going
You rarely feel at home when you are traveling abroad, you see the beauty, you see the sophistication, but it is other people s beauty and other people s sophistication. By chance my family and I came across a small trattoria called Le Tavernelle in The Monti district of Rome. We immediately