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* If I had to mention a few names here, it would be my teacher of Newtonian physics (Phys01, Phys02) and Newtonian Mechanics (ΚΜ1), [[wikipedia:Nikolaos Kylafis|Nikolaos Kylafis]]. I was tought Calculus by the very stimulating [https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=X9csaEcAAAAJ&hl=el Taxiarchis Papakostas]. I was introduced to the lovely field of Linear Algebra (with which I've fallen in love ever since) and to Probability theory by [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/i.papadakis Iossif Papadakis]. | * If I had to mention a few names here, it would be my teacher of Newtonian physics (Phys01, Phys02) and Newtonian Mechanics (ΚΜ1), [[wikipedia:Nikolaos Kylafis|Nikolaos Kylafis]]. I was tought Calculus by the very stimulating [https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=X9csaEcAAAAJ&hl=el Taxiarchis Papakostas]. I was introduced to the lovely field of Linear Algebra (with which I've fallen in love ever since) and to Probability theory by [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/i.papadakis Iossif Papadakis]. | ||
* I was fortunate enough to have been taught [dimensional analysis] by the legendary [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/e.economou Eleftherios Economou]. I was taught Ordinary Differential Equations by [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/e.kiritsis Elias Kyritsis]. Sat on two graduate Physics classes during my last year of studies (Quantum Many Body Theory and Analytic Mechanics) that were given by [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/g.psaltakis Gregory Psaltakis]. He had shown me the beauty and unity of mathematical physics. I still remember his words from one of our discussions back then about my plans continuing my studies somewhere in a field related to computational physics. He had said something along the lines "You'll never fall in love with computational stuff". He was quite right. I'd never felt the love I've felt for the mathematics courses I was tought during my studies in any of the computational physics courses. But at that point, we had either Fortran77 or C, or Java. I disliked all three of them, but most of them Fortran77 (material of nightmares). Mathematica was a nice revelation, but pretty slow for demanding computations. | * I was fortunate enough to have been taught [[wikipedia:Dimensional_analysis|dimensional analysis]] by the legendary [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/e.economou Eleftherios Economou]. I was taught Ordinary Differential Equations by [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/e.kiritsis Elias Kyritsis]. Sat on two graduate Physics classes during my last year of studies (Quantum Many Body Theory and Analytic Mechanics) that were given by [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/g.psaltakis Gregory Psaltakis]. He had shown me the beauty and unity of mathematical physics. I still remember his words from one of our discussions back then about my plans continuing my studies somewhere in a field related to computational physics. He had said something along the lines "You'll never fall in love with computational stuff". He was quite right. I'd never felt the love I've felt for the mathematics courses I was tought during my studies in any of the computational physics courses. But at that point, we had either Fortran77 or C, or Java. I disliked all three of them, but most of them Fortran77 (material of nightmares). Mathematica was a nice revelation, but pretty slow for demanding computations. Why on *Earth* none of our several US-educated professors hadn't even mentioned APL? I can't believe that none had heard about it. Why on earth should [[wikipedia:Fortran|Fortran]] be the first programming language that they teach you as a freshman? This is like the ultimate plan to make someone run away from scientific computing screaming in the hallway. | ||
* Finally, I did Physics experiments with [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/c.haldoupis Christos Chaldoupis] and [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/d.charalambidis Dimitris Charalambidis]. I was introduced to computational physics (using Fortran 77) first by Christos Chaldoupis mentioned earlier and then by [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/x.zotos Xenophon Zotos]. The second one made my experiences with Fortran77 bearable. The first one showed me that I'm surely not fond of experimental physics, but I enjoy writing reports on the results of the experiments and doing the analysis, and lastly also introduced me (unsuccessfully) to the [https://www.dislin.de/ DISLIN] Fortran graph library. It was something like [https://matplotlib.org/ matplotlib], but for Fortran. | * Finally, I did Physics experiments with [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/c.haldoupis Christos Chaldoupis] and [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/d.charalambidis Dimitris Charalambidis]. I was introduced to computational physics (using Fortran 77) first by Christos Chaldoupis mentioned earlier and then by [https://www.physics.uoc.gr/en/faculty/x.zotos Xenophon Zotos]. The second one made my experiences with Fortran77 bearable. The first one showed me that I'm surely not fond of experimental physics, but I enjoy writing reports on the results of the experiments and doing the analysis, and lastly also introduced me (unsuccessfully) to the [https://www.dislin.de/ DISLIN] Fortran graph library. It was something like [https://matplotlib.org/ matplotlib], but for Fortran. | ||