The Absence Of Zero

Author : R. Kolewe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1771667281

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The Absence of Zero by R. Kolewe Pdf

Author : R. Kolewe
Publisher : Book*hug Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771667265

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The Absence of Zero by R. Kolewe Pdf

The Absence of Zero is a triumphantly-executed celebration of the Canadian tradition, the long poem. Consisting of 256 16-line quartets, and 34 free-form interruptions, this slow-moving haunting work is a beautiful example of "thinking in language," a meditation that explores time and memory in both content and form. The 20th century is already more than 20 years past: The Absence of Zero is Kolewe's elegy to that era, and the disparate fragments of its ideas that continue to affect and disrupt our present.

Author : Amir D. Aczel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781466879102

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Finding Zero by Amir D. Aczel Pdf

The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is an adventure filled saga of Amir Aczel's lifelong obsession: to find the original sources of our numerals. Aczel has doggedly crisscrossed the ancient world, scouring dusty, moldy texts, cross examining so-called scholars who offered wildly differing sets of facts, and ultimately penetrating deep into a Cambodian jungle to find a definitive proof. Here, he takes the reader along for the ride. The history begins with the early Babylonian cuneiform numbers, followed by the later Greek and Roman letter numerals. Then Aczel asks the key question: where do the numbers we use today, the so-called Hindu-Arabic numerals, come from? It is this search that leads him to explore uncharted territory, to go on a grand quest into India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and ultimately into the wilds of Cambodia. There he is blown away to find the earliest zero—the keystone of our entire system of numbers—on a crumbling, vine-covered wall of a seventh-century temple adorned with eaten-away erotic sculptures. While on this odyssey, Aczel meets a host of fascinating characters: academics in search of truth, jungle trekkers looking for adventure, surprisingly honest politicians, shameless smugglers, and treacherous archaeological thieves—who finally reveal where our numbers come from.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780195128420

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The Nothing that is by Anonim Pdf

In the tradition of "Longitude, " a small and engagingly written book on the history and meaning of zero--a "tour de force" of science history that takes us through the hollow circle that leads to infinity. 32 illustrations.

Author : Alexandra-Ecaterina Irimia
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111150581

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Figures of Radical Absence by Alexandra-Ecaterina Irimia Pdf

Although post-structuralism has highlighted the importance of what is offstage, lost, forgotten, hidden or discarded, silent or silenced, the poetics and politics of absence (much like its ethics and aesthetics) have rarely been discussed across media or disciplines. The book conceptualizes 'radical absence' to describe a certain tradition of resistance to ontology, predication, and representation, contesting their reliance on a metaphysics of presence. Apophatic speech, empty signifiers, and figural voids are some of the figures through which radical absence becomes apparent, with unprecedented intensity, in 20th-century theory, literature, film, and the arts. Phantasmatic and outrageous, such figures play with creative strategies of de-materialization, irony, and other forms of discursive undoing. Therefore, absence becomes more than a simple theme; it reflects back on the medium and the meaning-making conditions under which it operates. Elusive and imprecise as an object of study, absence is in need of more subtle and flexible epistemological frameworks. The author proposes to think it not only as a counter-concept for presence, but also - perhaps more productively - as infinite spacing, deferral, fragmentation, and displacement.

Author : Silas Cheever Mason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Date-palms
ISBN : SRLF:A0011005733

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The Minimum Temperature for Growth of the Date Palm and the Absence of a Resting Period by Silas Cheever Mason Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Science
ISBN : UVA:X001679447

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American Journal of Science and Arts by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Seife
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781782837329

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Zero by Charles Seife Pdf

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshipped it, and the Christian Church used it to fend off heretics. Today it's a timebomb ticking in the heart of astrophysics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything. Zero has pitted East against West and faith against reason, and its intransigence persists in the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the Big Bang. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time: the quest for a theory of everything. Within the concept of zero lies a philosophical and scientific history of humanity. Charles Seife's elegant and witty account takes us from Aristotle to superstring theory by way of Egyptian geometry, Kabbalism, Einstein, the Chandrasekhar limit and Stephen Hawking. Covering centuries of thought, it is a concise tour of a world of ideas, bound up in the simple notion of nothing.

Author : Dilip B. Madan,Wim Schoutens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781316518090

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Nonlinear Valuation and Non-Gaussian Risks in Finance by Dilip B. Madan,Wim Schoutens Pdf

Explore how market valuation must abandon linearity to deliver efficient resource allocation.

Author : Tatjana Višak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137286277

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Killing Happy Animals: Explorations in Utilitarian Ethics by Tatjana Višak Pdf

Is it acceptable to kill an animal that has been granted a pleasant life? This book rigorously explores the moral basis of the ideal of animal-friendly animal husbandry and sheds new light on utilitarian moral theory by pointing out the assumptions and implications of two different versions of utilitarianism, with surprising conclusions.

Author : Thomas R. Zentall,Edward A. Wasserman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199930661

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The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition by Thomas R. Zentall,Edward A. Wasserman Pdf

In the past decade, the field of comparative cognition has grown and thrived. No less rigorous than purely behavioristic investigations, examinations of animal intelligence are useful for scientists and psychologists alike in their quest to understand the nature and mechanisms of intelligence. Extensive field research of various species has yielded exciting new areas of research, integrating findings from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a unique and wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research on animal cognition. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Cognition contains sections on perception and illusion, attention and search, memory processes, spatial cognition, conceptualization and categorization, problem solving and behavioral flexibility, and social cognition processes including findings in primate tool usage, pattern learning, and counting. The authors have incorporated findings and theoretical approaches that reflect the current state of the field. This comprehensive volume will be a must-read for students and scientists who want to know about the state of the art of the modern science of comparative cognition.

Author : Markus Pantsar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781009468909

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Numerical Cognition and the Epistemology of Arithmetic by Markus Pantsar Pdf

Arithmetic is one of the foundations of our educational systems, but what exactly is it? Numbers are everywhere in our modern societies, but what is our knowledge of numbers really about? This book provides a philosophical account of arithmetical knowledge that is based on the state-of-the-art empirical studies of numerical cognition. It explains how humans have developed arithmetic from humble origins to its modern status as an almost universally possessed knowledge and skill. Central to the account is the realisation that, while arithmetic is a human creation, the development of arithmetic is constrained by our evolutionarily developed cognitive architecture. Arithmetic is a sophisticated cultural development, but it is ultimately based on abilities with numerosities that we already possess as infants and share with many non-human animals. Therefore, arithmetic is not purely conventional, an arbitrary game akin to chess. Instead, arithmetic is deeply connected to our basic cognitive capacities.

Author : Hagit Borer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191643453

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Structuring Sense: Volume III: Taking Form by Hagit Borer Pdf

Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules. Its reformulation of how grammar and lexicon interact has profound implications for linguistic, philosophical, and psychological theories about human mind and language. Hagit Borer departs from language specific constructional approaches and from lexicalist approaches to argue that universal hierarchical structures determine interpretation, and that language variation emerges from the morphological and phonological properties of inflectional material. Taking Form, the third and final volume of Structuring Sense, applies this radical approach to the construction of complex words. Integrating research in syntax and morphology, the author develops a new model of word formation, arguing that on the one hand the basic building blocks of language are rigid semantic and syntactic functions, while on the other hand they are roots, which in themselves are but packets of phonological information, and are devoid of both meaning and grammatical properties of any kind. Within such a model, syntactic category, syntactic selection and argument structure are all mediated through syntactic structures projected from rigid functions, or alternatively, constructed through general combinatorial principles of syntax, such as Chomsky's Merge. The meaning of 'words', in turn, does not involve the existence of lexemes, but rather the matching of a well-defined and phonologically articulated syntactic domain with conceptual Content, itself outside the domain of language as such. In a departure from most current models of syntax but in line with many philosophical traditions, then, the Exo-Skeletal model partitions 'meaning' into formal functions, on the one hand, and Content, on the other hand. While the former are read off syntactico-semantic structures as is usually assumed, Content is crucially read off syntactico-phonological structures.

Author : Paul G. Nestor,Russell K. Schutt
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483369150

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Research Methods in Psychology by Paul G. Nestor,Russell K. Schutt Pdf

The Second Edition of Paul G. Nestor and Russell K. Schutt’s successful and unique Research Methods in Psychology: Investigating Human Behavior draws from substantive research stories to illustrate how research is presented while systematically unifying the entire research process within a conceptual framework. This accessible text examines engaging research studies and examples, considering research ethics throughout. “This is a great text that emphasizes the important concepts within research methods. The resources are excellent; they incorporate up-to-date research and technology and introduce the student to empirical articles, and the information is presented in a way that challenges the student to apply the material.” —Maria Pacella, Kent State University “The text is comprehensive. It covers a wide variety of information without being overwhelming. This is a very good textbook for an introductory course in research methods. I like that its focus is on psychological research specifically.” —Angela M. Heads, Prairie View A&M University

Author : John Nolt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000515268

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Incomparable Values by John Nolt Pdf

People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct. This book argues, to the contrary, that values are often partially ordered and hence frequently incomparable. Proceeding logically from a small set of axioms, John Nolt examines the great variety of partially ordered value structures, exposing fallacies that arise from overlooking them. He reveals various ways in which incomparability is obscured: using linear indices to summarize partially ordered data, relying on an inadequately defined concept of parity, or conflating incomparability with vagueness. Incomparability can enrich and clarify a range of topics including the paradoxes of Derek Parfit, rational decision theory, and the infinite values of theology. Finally, Nolt shows how to generalize many of the concepts introduced earlier, explores the intricate depths of certain noteworthy partially ordered value structures, and argues for the finitude of value. Incomparable Values will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics, value theory, rational decision theory, and logic.