3 papers
math.HO2023
On complemented, uniquely complemented and uniquely complemented nondistributive lattices (a historical and epistemological note about a mathematical mystery)
Daniel Parrochia
Complemented lattices and uniquely complemented lattices are very important, not only in mathematics, but also in physics, biology, and even in social sciences. They have been inve…
physics.soc-ph2023
Global warming in figures and the question of its treatment: some historical and epistemological views
Daniel Parrochia
We first recall fundamentals of elementary climate physics: solar constant, radiative balance, greenhouse effect, astronomical parameters of the climate (theory of Milankovitch). W…
physics.hist-ph2023
A "network of networks" (from history to algebra)
Daniel Parrochia
Recall first the algebraic treatment of flows or tensions in a transportation network , i.e. a connected antisymmetric 1-graph . Assume that, unusually, we take the val…