LAW & ORDER, RELIGION & ORDER

Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order

This is a book review of Elijah Siegler, ed., Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2016. Author Notes Richard Goodwin is working towards a PhD in Theology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His dissertation explores the connections between film images, emotion, and general revelation. Prior to his current studies, he studied theology and the arts a...

Sanctions, Law and Public Order

Order Statistics and Benford's Law

Fix a base B > 1 and let ζ have the standard exponential distribution; the distribution of digits of ζ base B is known to be very close to Benford’s law. If there exists a C such that the distribution of digits of C times the elements of some set is the same as that of ζ, we say that set exhibits shifted exponential behavior base B. Let X1, . . . , XN be i.i.d.r.v. If the Xi’s are Unif, then as...

Law and order in algorithmics

LAW and ORDER in ALGORITHMICS An algorithm is the input-output effect of a computer program; mathematically, the notion of algorithm comes close to the notion of function. Just as arithmetic is the theory and practice of calculating with numbers, so is ALGORITHMICS the theory and practice of calculating with algorithms. Just as a law in arithmetic is an equation between numbers, like a(b + c) =...

Reverse order law in C∗-algebras

We study equivalent conditions for the reverse order law (a1a2 . . . an)† = an(a † 1a1a2 . . . ana † n) †a1 in C ∗-algebras. As corollaries, we obtain some recent and special results.