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most citedThe JOREK non-linear extended MHD code and applications to large-scale instabilities and their control in magnetically confined fusion plasmas

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math.HO2025

Galilei and Huygens: Music and science

Athanase Papadopoulos

Vincenzo Galilei and Constantijn Huygens were both humanists and eminent musicians, the former from the late Renaissance and the latter from the early Modern era. Their respective…

math.HO2025

The mathematics of periodic anthyphairesis as a basis for the full understanding of Plato's philosophy

Stelios Negrepontis, Athanase Papadopoulos

Even though Plato's philosophy in ancient times was always closely associated with mathematics, modern Platonic scholarship, during the last five centuries, has moved steadily towa…

math.HO2023

Café conversations: A tribute to Norbert A'Campo

Athanase Papadopoulos

This is an intrusion in the life and the mathematics of Norbert A'Campo, intended to be a tribute to him and an acknowledgement of his impact on those who know him and his work. Th…

math.HO2023

Pavel Florensky and his world

Athanase Papadopoulos

This is an overview of the life and works of Pavel Florensky, an important and singular figure of the period rightly described as the \emph{Silver Age of Russian mathematics}, with…

math.HO2022

On Delisle's geographical projection

Charalampos Charitos, Athanase Papadopoulos

Joseph-Nicolas Delisle was one of the most important scientists at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences during the first period when Euler was working there. Euler was helping…

math.HO2022

Clairaut, Euler and the figure of the Earth

Athanase Papadopoulos

The sphericity of the form of the Earth was questioned around the year 1687, primarily, by Isaac Newton who deduced from his theory of universal gravitation that the Earth has the…