A NOTE ON ARISTOPHANES, KNIGHTS 295

Aristophanes on Tragedy

Fifty years before Aristotle wrote his Poetics, Aristophanes had devoted two comedies, Thesmophoriazusae (411) and Frogs (405), to the subject of tragedy. In both plays the plot shows the education of the main character in the nature of tragedy. Euripides learns in Thesmophoriazusae that he must present noble and not base women in his dramas. His depiction of perverse women in the theatre had m...

The Ionian at Aristophanes

Acceleration of the Boundary Element Library BEM4I on the Knights Corner and Knights Landing Architectures

The aim of the poster is to present the acceleration of the boundary element method (BEM) by the Intel Xeon Phi technology. The poster provides brief overview of BEM followed by the discretization approach and efficient numerical assembly of the BEM matrices. We discuss its parallelization by OpenMP in shared memory and the SIMD vectorization necessary to exploit the full potential of the Xeon ...

Beyond Knights and Knaves

In the classic knights and knaves problem, there are n people in a room each of whom is a knight or a knave. Knights always tell the truth while knaves always lie. Everyone in the room knows each other’s identity. You are allowed to ask questions of the form “Person i, is person j a knight?” and you are told that there are more knights than knaves. What is the fewest number of questions you can...

Unended knights' tournaments.

opinion opinion F or my generation, science has resem­ bled the tournaments of medieval knights: fierce, but fair. peter Mitchell started an uphill battle for his chemi­ osmotic theory in the 1960s and persisted until his adversaries avowed defeat in a joint publication with him in 1977 (Boyer et al, 1977). He received the Nobel prize for his work in 1978. My generation also grew up under the d...