Nezameddin Faghih
Dr. Faghih holds a Ph. D in Random Signal Analysis from Surrey University. He is a member of the New York Academy of Science, the IEEE, the American Mathematical Society, and many others. He is currently Professor of Engineering and Industrial Management at Shiraz University, and has taught classes there, and at the University of Maryland, in a wide-variety of engineering related subjects, including System Dynamics, System Identification, Control Systems and Engineering Management. He has published ten books, including: Maintenance Engineering (winner of the Book of the Year Prize from the Iranian Ministry of Higher Education), Science in the Mathnawi of Maulawi, and Love and the Entity.
Mawlana Jalaladdin Mawlawi, born in 1207 (A.H.604) and died in 1273 (A.H.672), one of the greatest Iranian scientists, doctrinairs and philosophers, has employed a poesy language, as was customary at his time, to express his scientific and philosophic concepts and doctrines. This paper highlights some of these doctrines, in the area of physical sciences, which today after centuries, have been established and understood as well-known scientific facts; so well known to the scientists, that no formal proof is felt required to support them. In specific, a mathematical demonstration, based on the Renewal Theory, is presented for his cognition that:
Every moment the world is renewed, and we are unaware of its being renewed whilst it remains (the same in appearance). Life is ever arriving anew, like the stream, though in the body it has the semblance of continuity.
On this, the paper proceeds to show that life is, indeed, a renewal process, posing continuity. In fact, by employing the Renewal Theory and applying the exponential probability density function (which is generally known to represent life), it is shown that lifetime is, but the Mathematical Expectation of the number of renewals and appears as a continuous function. This, however, seems to be an interesting result, on its own.