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Medical Etymology

Etymology, history, and artifacts

Elliptic really does have a connection with literal geometric ellipses, removed by a few steps. Integrals expressing arc length of ellipses are less elementary than integrals for inverse trigonometric functions, and were named elliptic because of this. Abel and Jacobi discovered in 1827 that the inverse functions are doubly periodic (explained below). This chain of events caused these functions...

Etymology of Cholera

1. Gray KJ, Kafulafula G, Matemba M, Kamdolozi M, Membe G, French N, et al. Streptococcus and HIV infection in pregnant women, Malawi, 2008–2010. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011;17:1932–5. 2. Epalza C, Goetghebuer T, Hainaut M, Prayez F, Barlow P, Dediste A, et al. High incidence of invasive group B streptococcal infections in HIV-exposed uninfected infants. Pediatrics. 2010;126:e631–8. http://dx.doi.or...

Hit - and - Run is Fast and Fun ∗

The hit-and-run algorithm is one of the fastest known methods to generate a random point in a high dimensional convex set. In this paper we study a natural extension of the hit-and-run algorithm to sampling from a logconcave distribution in n dimensions. After appropriate preprocessing, hit-and-run produces a point from approximately the right distribution in amortized time O∗(n3).

Abstracts Fun is in doing together

Fun is in doing together Anu Mäkelä, Pia Kurimo, Katja Battarbee Helsinki University of Technology P.O. Box 9555, FIN-02015 HUT