fluents.xyz

`Now those quantities which i consider as gradually and indefinitely increasing, i shall hereafter call fluents or flowing quantities, and shall represent them by the final letters of the alphabet v, x, y and z;' (Isaac Newton, the method of fluxions and infinite series)

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  • 2025-12-25 Mathematics in plain text
  • 2025-11-22 Bibliometrics of architecture and build environment research
  • 2025-08-14 How I use social networks
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    My name is Aleix Alva (shortened version of Aleix Álvarez Ciudad). I am a physicist, currently working as a lecturer in mathematics at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB, UPC) and as a researcher in the GICITED group.

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