Libres figurations : années 80

Figurations of Modernity

has made the world more modern, not less. But how has modernity been conceived of in colonial, postcolonial, and post-revolutionary worlds? In Figurations of Modernity, an international team of scholars probe how non-European worlds have become modern ones, from the perspective of a broad range of societies around the globe. From vocational education in Argentina to secular morality in Tibet, f...

Hooke's figurations: a figural drawing attributed to Robert Hooke.

The experimental philosopher Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is known to have apprenticed to the leading painter Peter Lely on his first arrival in London in the late 1640s. Yet the relevance of Hooke's artistic training to his mature draughtsmanship and identity has remained unclear. Shedding light on that larger interpretive problem, this article argues for the attribution to Hooke of a figural draw...

Quotients Homophones des Groupes Libres Homophonic Quotients of Free Groups

Ah, la recherche! Du temps perdu. Soit G le quotient du groupe libre a 26 g en era-teurs a; b; c; : : : ; z par les relations A = B, pour tout couple de mots (A; B) pouvant avoir la m^ eme prononciation en anglais. (Un groupe d eeni d'une mani ere analogue a et e consid er e dans Landsburg 1986].) Notre but est de d eterminer la structure du groupe G. Théorème. G est trivial. Démonstration. (No...

On zero free sets Sobre los conjuntos libres de ceros

Let G be a finite abelian group and let ZFSs(G) and μs(G) be respectively, the set of zero free sets and the set of minimal zero sets of G. The Olson constant, O(G), is 1 + max{|S| : S ∈ ZFSs(G)} and the strong Davenport constant, SD(G), is max{|S| : S ∈ μs(G)}. We show that there exists a very large class of groups G for which SD(G) = O(G). Then we give new values of SD(G).

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