School of Mathematics
Nigel H Buttimore
International Year of Light celebrates
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1015 Al-Haytham's work on optics
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1815 Fresnel's wave theory of light
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1965 Maxwell's electromagnetic theory
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1915 Einstein's view of light in cosmology
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1965 Cosmic microwaves; optical communiction
"The duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists,
if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy
of all that he reads, and . . . attack it from every side.
He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical
examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either
prejudice or leniency.”
Al-Haytham
Einstein employed two strategies in his search for the equations
of General Relativity: either starting from a mathematically
attractive candidate and then checking the physics or
starting from a physically sensible candidate and then
checking the mathematics.
Both strategies played an essential role in the
decisive breakthrough of November 1915.
"Ideas do not always come in a flash, but by diligent
trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought."
Charles K. Kao was jointly awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics
for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of
light in fibres for optical communication".
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Publications in Bioinformatics
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Carolin Kosiol, Nick Goldman
and Nigel H. Buttimore,
'A New Criterion and Method for Amino Acid Classification',
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 228 (2004) 97-106.
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Avril Coghlan, Dónall A. MacDónaill
and Nigel H. Buttimore,
'Representation of amino acids as five-bit or
three-bit patterns for filtering protein databases',
Bioinformatics, 17 (2001) 676-685.
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N. H. Buttimore and D. A. Mac Dónaill,
'Bit manipulation strategies in amino acid text',
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on
perspectives on protein engineering,
The John Innes Conference Centre, Norwich,
ed M. J. Geisow, Nottingham, Biodigm, 1997,
ISBN 0-9529015-1-X, 8 pp.
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D. A. Mac Dónaill and N. H. Buttimore,
'The exploitation of assembly language instructions in
biological text manipulation: I. Nucleotide sequences',
Computers and Mathematics with Applications,
32, 11 (1996) 29-38.
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N. H. Buttimore and D. A. Mac Dónaill,
'The exploitation of assembly language instructions in
biological text manipulation: II. Amino acid sequences',
Computers and Mathematics with Applications,
32, 11 (1996), 39-45.
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