In the 9th century, the term received a mathematical meaning when the Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi employed it to describe a method of solving equations and used it in the title of a treatise on algebra, al-Kitāb al-Mukhtaṣar fī Ḥisāb al-...
But Ramanujan found meaning in it. One friend, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893–1972), an eminent statistical scientist and the founder of Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, the man who found him shivering in his Cambridge room, later wrote how Ramanujan “spoke with such enthusiasm ...
These ants, of course, have no real brain to speak of. There’s no question of an ant being able to understand what a symbol is, let alone interpret it, let alone consciously follow an algorithm. All of the above is just fancy chemistry. And so Feser would, no doubt, say that the ...
The present invention relates to new AGC kinase inhibitors, in particular to compounds of Formula I or II or a stereoisomer, tautomer, racemic, metabolite, pro- or pre-drug, salt, hydrate, or solvate thereof, wherein Ar, Cy, R1, R3, p and n have the meaning defined in the claims. I...
The bigger issue, though, was that my father could not abide seeing HIMSELF as a criminal, and that was the meaning of civil rights activism in the Narrative ocean in which 1960s Alabama white people swam: civil rights activism = criminality. This is the awesome power of effective Narratives...
Case in point, the abomination known as the carbon credit market.The Shambolic Protocol of Carbon Credit MarketsCarbon credit markets are my poster child for a “government-sanctioned and oligarchy-established set of rules” that ends up actively perverting their original important and well-meaning ...
“Cell surface” is used in accordance with its normal meaning in the art, and thus includes the outside of the cell which is accessible to binding by proteins and other moleculesA tumor antigen is expressed on the surface of cells if it is located at the surface of said cells and is ...