An invitation to read Book X of Euclid's Elements

Book X of The Elements: Ordering Irrationals

2012_03_13_Gabriella Kecskes PhD 2012- INVITATION BOOK

An Open Invitation , or How to Read the Ethics of Austen ’ s Pride and Prejudice

To understand the function of the invitation in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), it is necessary to question what it is about this novel that makes readers respond. One might begin interrogating this ethics of response, perhaps, by considering the book’s famous opening line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a...

An Invitation to Play

Parity games and their subclasses and variants pop up in various contexts: μ-calculus, tree automata, program verification [3, 1, 8]. Such games provide only binary information indicating the winning player. However, in classical games theory [12] the emphasis is rather on how much we win or lose. Can we incorporate the information about the profits and losses into parity games?

An Invitation to Topology