Emmanuel Carvallo

Emmanuel Carvallo was a French mathematician.[1] He is notable for showing in 1897 that bicycles could be self-stable,[2][3][4] for opposing wave models of X-rays in 1900,[5] and for claiming in 1912 that Einstein's Theory of Relativity had been proven false.[6]

References

  1. ^ Bottazzini, Umberto; Dahan-Dalmédico, Amy (2001). Changing images in mathematics: from the French Revolution to the new millennium. Routledge. pp. 162. 
  2. ^ Kooijman, J. D. G.; Meijaard, J. P.; Papadopoulos, J. M.; Ruina, A.; Schwab, A. L. (April 15, 2011). "A bicycle can be self-stable without gyrosocpic or caster effects" (PDF). Science 332 (6027): 339–342. Bibcode 2011Sci...332..339K. doi:10.1126/science.1201959. http://bicycle.tudelft.nl/stablebicycle/StableBicyclev34Revised.pdf. Retrieved 2011-04-16. 
  3. ^ Highfield, Roger (Jun 2007). "The mathematical way to ride a bike". The Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3296637/The-mathematical-way-to-ride-a-bike.html. Retrieved 2011-04-16. 
  4. ^ J. P. Meijaard, J. M. Papadopoulos, A. Ruina, and A. L. Schwab (2007). "Linearized dynamics equations for the balance and steer of a bicycle: a benchmark and review" (PDF). Proc. R. Soc. A. 463 (2084): 1955–1982. Bibcode 2007RSPSA.463.1955M. doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1857. http://audiophile.tam.cornell.edu/~als93/Publications/06PA0459BicyclePaperv45.pdf. 
  5. ^ Wheaton, Bruce R. (1991), The Tiger and the Shark: Empirical Roots of Wave-Particle Dualism, Cambridge University Press, p. 42, ISBN 9780521358927, http://books.google.com/books?id=ULH7S4j8rlMC&pg=PA42 .
  6. ^ C. J. Ryan (January, 1935). "Science and Research". Theosophical Path Magazine: 518.