Is There a Resource Curse for Private Liberties?

Is There a Curse of Dimension for Integration?

Is There a Curse of Dimensionality for Contraction

This paper analyzes the complexity of the contraction fixed point problem: compute an ε-approximation to the fixed point V ∗ = Γ(V ∗) of a contraction mapping Γ that maps a Banach space Bd of continuous functions of d variables into itself. We focus on quasi linear contractions where Γ is a nonlinear functional of a finite number of conditional expectation operators. This class includes contrac...

Is There a Curse of the Fields Medal?

H ow worried should you be that getting a Fields medal might destroy your research career? The question seems preposterous, but a recent paper [BD14] by two economists, George Borjas and Kirk Doran, suggests that this is a question that we, the mathematical and scientific community, should consider. Happily, readers over the age of forty do not need to worry, but perhaps young researchers shoul...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

Vitamin D: Is There a New Era?

  Background: In recent decades, much interest has been focused on investigating new roles of vitamin D in human body beyond the mineral-ion homeostasis. Methods: By searching medical databases such as PubMed, over 16000 articles were found which have been published since 2000 on novel aspects of vitamin D in health and diseases. Results: Of great interest was the effects of vitamin D on ...