N. David Mermin
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Nathaniel David Mermin is a solid-state physicist at Cornell University best known for the eponymous Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner theorem, his application of the term "boojum" to superfluidity, his textboo
Mermin in 2019
Foot (unit)
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The foot is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement. The prime symbol, ′, is commonly used to represent the foot. In both customary and imperial uni
N. David Mermin
…of condensed-matter physics. In his book It's About Time (2005), one of several expository pieces on special relativity, he suggests that the English foot (0.3048 meters) be slightly modified to approximately 0.2998 m. This adaptation of a physical unit is one of several ploys that Mermin uses to draw…
The unofficial public imperial measurement standards erected at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in the 19th century
Page from Austrian Lehrbuch des gesammten Rechnens für die vierte Classe der Hauptschulen in den k.k. Staaten of 1848 (transl. Combined mathematics textbook for the fourth form of senior schools in the Imperial–royal states)