Charlotte Lerouge-Cohen, Souvenirs du passéperse àl’époque hellénistique (Arménie, Cappadoce, Commagène, Perside, Pont, Royaume arsacide), Peter Lang, Bruxelles 2022, pp. 502 + figs. 8 + 3 maps; ISBN 978-2-8076-1392-8

435 pp., $109.00, ISBN 3-540-66986-8

The theory of profinite groups is flourishing! This is the first immediate observation from looking at the four books on the subject which have come out in the last two years. The subject, which only two decades ago was somewhat remote, has made its way to mainstream mathematics in several different ways. What is a profinite group? A profinite group G is a topological group which is Hausdorff, ...

Critical Play: Radical Game Design by Mary Flanagan, MIT Press, 353 pp., ISBN 978-0-262-06268-8

THE PAST DECADE HAS SEEN A RAPID EXPANSION in the field of academic writing on the subject of computer and video games. The formerly marginalized field is now receiving its scholarly due as part of an increased focus on popular culture influenced by the development of Cultural Studies departments in universities. Early contributors to this scholarly field, such as Michel de Certeau and Dick Heb...

Homework 2 ; due on Thursday , October 8 PY 502

A sphere of radius r1 consists of two different materials, with densities ρ1 and ρ2. The material with density ρ2 is located within a cylinder of radius r2, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and the material of density ρ1 fills up the rest of the sphere. Write a program that calculates the two moments of inertia of this sphere corresponding to rotation about the z and x axis. The inner cylinder is cent...

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This article deals with preference modeling. It concerns the concepts of discriminating thresholds as a tool to cope with the imperfect nature of knowledge in decision aiding. Such imperfect knowledge is related with the definition of each criterion as well as with the data we have to take into account. On the one hand, we shall present a useful theoretical synthesis for the analyst in his/her ...