Fact-Crazy, Theory-Shy?

Crazy-Cuts: From Theory to App

Please send all submissions to the Mathematical Entertainments Editor, Ravi Vakil, Stanford University, Department of Mathematics, Bldg, 380, Stanford, CA 94305-2125, USA e-mail: [email protected] C razy-Cut puzzles are fascinating and often quite challenging: Given a planar shape (as for example depicted inFigure 1a), finda cutting curve thatdivides the shape into two parts, identical up...

Evolution as Fact and Theory

Automated Classification of Quilt Photographs Into Crazy and Non- crazy

This work addresses the problem of automatic classification and labeling of 19thand 20th-century quilts from photographs. The photographs are classified according to the quilt patterns into crazy and non –– crazy categories. Based on the classification labels, humanists try to understand the distinct characteristics of an individual quilt-maker or relevant quilt-making groups in terms of their ...

Fact and Myth in Social Class Theory

A Crazy Methodology

Despite the great popularity in the social sciences of macroquantitative, comparative research during the last two decades and despite the hope laid into the approach to be able to carefully test theories about social macrofenomena, it has had only limited lasting impact on theory building. Symptomatic is the lack of robustness of findings. The cause of this problem is the difficulty of dealing...