Series Analysis of Tricritical Behavior: Mean-Field Model and Slicewise Pade Approximants

A mean-field model is proposed as a test case for tricritical series analyses methods. Derivation of the 50th order series for the magnetization is reported. As the first application this series is analyzed by the traditional slicewise Pade approximant method popular in earlier studies of tricriticality.Comment: 22 pages in plain TeX; 7 PostScript figs available by e-mai

R.A.Fisher, design theory, and the Indian connection

Design Theory, a branch of mathematics, was born out of the experimental statistics research of the population geneticist R. A. Fisher and of Indian mathematical statisticians in the 1930s. The field combines elements of combinatorics, finite projective geometries, Latin squares, and a variety of further mathematical structures, brought together in surprising ways. This essay will present these structures and ideas as well as how the field came together, in itself an interesting story.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure

Applicability of remote sensor data to geologic analysis of the Bonanza test site Colorado

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