Re: Fingerprints in the sky explai ned by ?beautif ul mathematics?
From: Joe Kauzlarich (jkauzlar_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/15/04
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Date: 15 Nov 2004 11:58:51 -0800
mathma18@hotmail.com (Narasimham G.L.) wrote in message news:<676dc11a.0411150241.28781b9a@posting.google.com>...
> Sam Wormley <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message news:<VvSld.338100$wV.324690@attbi_s54>...
> > Fingerprints in the sky explained by ?beautiful mathematics?
> > http://www.iop.org/news/844
> >
> > Michael Berry and Mark Dennis from the University of Bristol,
> > in collaboration with Raymond Lee of the US Naval Academy, have
> > successfully predicted the patterns of polarisation of skylight,
> > explained in broad outline by Lord Rayleigh in 1871, using
> > elliptic integrals ? a type of mathematics with deep geometrical
> > roots, often described as ?beautiful?.
>
> Pity, there are no pictures or equations of those fingerprint ridges given.
Here's the paper...
http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1367-2630/6/1/162/njp4_1_162.html
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