FORMULA DISCOVERY

My strategy for discovering curious formulas in math and physics and chemistry...is to scan known equations and look for a right hand or left hand side of an equation (say the ideal gas law)...then identify the dimensions of that particular half of an equation, and set that half of the equation (say PV) to some seemingly unrelated half equation in some other, unrelated area of science that has coincidentally the same dimensions in its respective half...and just keep the dimensions consistent as you rearrange the equation in to some form that is curious, or profound, and that has never been seen before. I believe right now (if I had some space) I could go right in to Feynman's Lectures on Physics and start straight away coming up with new physical identities using this strategy....and sometimes in this way you discover important things like the matter wave-light wave hypothesis etc.

HUNTER RAWLINGS

Hunter Rawlings III was the 10th President of Cornell University from 1995 to 2003. During my last year as a PhD student at Cornell, in 1995, Rawlings assumed the Office of the Presidency from FHT Rhodes. Some time in 1995 I went to one of Rawlings' speeches on campus. He was a very quick wit and a great communicator. Rawlings was an effective leader of several capital campaigns launched by the University during his tenure. He moved to create the Weill Center for Cell and Molecular Biology on campus and he presided over the creation of the Weill Cornell School of Medicine in Qatar. He introduced several University initiatives in computational biology and information science and technology, and in materials science, and in several other technology areas. I briefly met, and shook hands with Rawlings, once in 1997 during the Spring graduation ceremony that I attended after getting my PhD degree in January, 1996. There was no time to talk, only a quick hand shake and "congragulations" from him. Rawlings' background is in Classics, and among his achievements, in this area, is a learned work in Greek History concerning the Greek figure Thucydides. In 2005-2006 and 2016-2017 he served as interim University President. On several occasions since 2020 I may have heard Rawlings indirectly addressing me with supportive words...but these conversations cannot be verified.