Postmodernism: ALyotard, J-F. (1993) `Answering the question: what is postmodernism?', in T. Docherty (ed.) Postmodernism: A Reader. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.Lyotard, J. F. (1993) 'Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?' In Docherty, T. (ed.)....
‘The silence and stillness of the wood were complete. Only now and then a large sheaf of snow came thumping down from a tree. The branch from which it had fallen rocked awhile, and then all was lifeless again. “The world’s asleep,” Moomintroll thought. “It’s only I who am awa...
..a perverse sheaf? What is ...a perverse sheaf?What is ...a perverse sheaf?Mathematics - Algebraic GeometryThree-page article on the notion of perverse sheaf to appear in the "What is?" series in the Notices of the AMS.doi:http://dx.doi.org/Mark Andrea de Cataldo...
A pulley is a wheel with a grooved rim designed for lifting or moving loads using a rope, while a sheave is the wheel component within the pulley system that interacts with the rope.
In analytic number theory, there is a well known analogy between the prime factorisation of a large integer, and the cycle decomposition of a large permutation; this analogy is central to the topic of “anatomy of the integers”, as discussed for instance in this survey article of Granville....
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There is nothing wrong, of course, in wanting students to be able to generate the correct answer to mathematical problems. The issue here is that for a deep understanding of the problem space to be achieved, students need to grasp the solution space in relation to the error space. This poi...
The year of 2008 is a very significant markstone of 21st Century financial and capital history. The famous “American Subprime Mortgage Crisis” happened in this year. And not only since then has it become the nightmare of all human and made the word “‘X’ crisis” known to every ordinar...
In this post I would like to describe a different way to formalise stochastic spaces, and stochastic elements of these spaces, by viewing the spaces as measure-theoretic analogue of a sheaf, but being over the probability space rather than over a topological space; stochastic objects are then ...