Études philoponiennes. Philosopher à l’École d’Alexandrie

Contributions à la compréhension de problèmes d'optimisation combinatoire et études d'extensions de la méthode B

Thomas Young, Natural Philosopher

Dr. Willmer's second edition of this little book fulfills his stated purpose ... to correlate some of the numerous fragments of scattered data which have so far been obtained and to orientate them in such a way as to illustrate the more fundamental contributions which the method has made to physiological knowledge, and to show the manner in which a change of outlook has already been brought abo...

Joseph Priestley, natural philosopher.

In this two hundredth anniversary year of his death, we are met to celebrate the life and career of Joseph Priestley—and most of us celebrate the wrong man, for the wrong reasons. We celebrate the pneumatic chemist who, in a flurry of random experiments made over a period of five years, isolated and partially identified nine new gases, including oxygen—and the man who spent roughly five times a...

Newton as Philosopher

Études in non-interactive zero-knowledge

N a ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PROOF [GMR85], Prover interactively convinces Verifier that theorem 7r is true in such a way that (a) a corrupt Prover cannot convince Verifier of a false theorem and (b) a corrupt Verifier cannot "learn" anything other than the fact that r is true. In a NON-INTERACTIVE ZERO-KNOWLEDGE PROOF [BFM88], the Prover must do the above by sending only a single message to Verifier! To...