François Louis Ganshof : Medieval Historian and Friend

François Bernier's discourse on the health system in medieval India.

© The National Medical Journal of India 2010 INTRODUCTION Several French travellers visited India during the seventeenth century and wrote valuable accounts in the form of memoirs, dairies, personal letters, notes, official papers and reports of their missions based on their observations and experiences. François Bernier (Fig. 1), a renowned European physician, visited India in the seventeenth ...

François Delmas And

The waste-recycling Monte Carlo (WR) algorithm, introduced by Frenkel, is a modification of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, which makes use of all the proposals, whereas the standard Metropolis-Hastings algorithm only uses the accepted proposals. We prove the convergence of the WR algorithm and its asymptotic normality. We give an example which shows that in general the WR algorithm is not a...

19 April 2013 − − François

Assignment 3 François Séguin

Question 1 First, we have that λ − λ − 2 = (λ + 1)(λ − 2). Therefore, it is true that the eigenvalues of the corresponding adjacency matrix come in pairs of additive inverse. However, notice that ± √ −1 are eigenvalues, and therefore the associated matrix cannot be symmetric (there would only be real eigenvalues). We conclude that no undirected graph can have the above characteristic polynomial...

The Planck mission François

These lecture notes discuss some aspects of the Planck1 mission, whose prime objective was a very accurate measurement of the temperature anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). We announced our findings a few months ago, on March 21st , 2013. I describe some of the relevant steps we took to obtain these results, sketching the measurement process, how we processed the data to obt...