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The Soviet Nuclear Archipelago : A Historical Geography of Atomic-Powered Communism.
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ISBN: 9789633866481 9633866480 Year: 2024 Publisher: Budapest : Central European University Press,

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The war in Ukraine, with the exposure of nuclear power stations and the danger of atomic warfare, has made the legacy of the Soviet nuclear sector of critical importance. The two authors map the Soviet nuclear industry in a shifting historical context, making sense of a complex socio-technical and environmental history. Taking an innovative approach, this book explores the history of atomic power in the former Soviet Union using the spatial dimensions of the nuclear industry as a point of departure. The key concept is that of the archipelago - a network of nuclear facilities spread throughout the Soviet territory, but mutually reliant on each other and densely connected. The story traces the emergence of nuclear science and technology for military and civilian purposes through to the post-Soviet Russian nuclear corporations as providers of resources and technology. The book explains how nuclear developments in the Soviet Union interacted with processes of environmental and landscape change. The spatial lens offers an analytically fruitful and pedagogically stimulating way to comprehend the nuclear histories of the Soviet Union and its successor states.


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Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons : From the Mathematics of Heat to the Development of the Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable
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ISBN: 0691199949 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cableHeat, like gravity, shapes nearly every aspect of our world and universe, from how milk dissolves in coffee to how molten planets cool. The heat equation, a cornerstone of modern physics, demystifies such processes, painting a mathematical picture of the way heat diffuses through matter. Presenting the mathematics and history behind the heat equation, Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons tells the remarkable story of how a foundational idea brought about one of the greatest technological advancements of the modern era.Paul Nahin vividly recounts the heat equation's tremendous influence on society, showing how French mathematical physicist Joseph Fourier discovered, derived, and solved the equation in the early nineteenth century. Nahin then follows Scottish physicist William Thomson, whose further analysis of Fourier's explorations led to the groundbreaking trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. This feat of engineering reduced the time a message could be sent across the ocean from weeks to minutes. Readers also learn that Thomson used Fourier's solutions to calculate the age of the earth, and, in a bit of colorful lore, that writer Charles Dickens relied on the trans-Atlantic cable to save himself from a career-damaging scandal. The book's mathematical and scientific explorations can be easily understood by anyone with a basic knowledge of high school calculus and physics, and MATLAB code is included to aid readers who would like to solve the heat equation themselves.A testament to the intricate links between mathematics and physics, Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons offers a fascinating glimpse into a formative equation's relationship with one of the most important developments in human communication.

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Heat equation. --- Mathematical physics --- Transatlantic cables --- Telegraph cables --- Electric cables --- Telecommunication cables --- Atlantic cables --- Cables, Submarine --- Physical mathematics --- Physics --- Diffusion equation --- Heat flow equation --- Differential equations, Parabolic --- History --- History. --- Mathematics --- Fourier, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph, --- Kelvin, William Thomson, --- Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph, --- Fourier, Joseph, --- Kelvin, --- Kelvin, W. Thomson, --- Thomson, W. --- Thomson, William, --- Tomson, Vilʹi︠a︡m, --- 1866 cable. --- AP-calculus. --- AP-physics. --- Atlantic cable equation. --- Charles Dicken’s mistress. --- Dirichlet’s discontinuous integral. --- Duhamel’s integral. --- Elena Prestini. --- Fourier series. --- Fourier transforms. --- Fourier’s law of conduction. --- Fourier’s theorem on polynomial real roots. --- François Budan. --- History of science and technology. --- Jacques Sturm. --- Joseph-Louis Lagrange. --- Lord Kelvin. --- Peter Dirichlet, Claude Louis Navier. --- The Evolution of Applied Harmonic Analysis. --- Who is Fourier?. --- analytical theory of heat. --- circular ring. --- cooling sphere. --- electrical physics. --- electronic computation. --- flow of heat energy. --- greenhouse effect. --- heat equation in a long radiating wire. --- heat equation in a sphere. --- heat equation in an infinite mass. --- insulated sphere. --- molten sphere. --- second order partial differential equation. --- semi-infinite mass with a finite thickness. --- semi-infinite mass with infinite thickness.

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