LUDWIG SENFL's „LUTHER-MOTETTER"

Bad for Business: Luther Against the Papacy

This paper analyzes Martin Luther’s criticism of increasingly corrupt church practices, including, the papacy’s granting of indulgences, the promotion of pilgrimage, the preservation and exploitation of relics, the cult of saints, and the belief in saintly intercession. I will examine how Luther’s critiques of these practices were expressed in the religious propaganda that circulated during thi...

Current Issues and Trends in Luther Studies

Rereading Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann is one of the first physicists who brought probability and statistical considerations into physics. Particularly famous is his statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. However, Boltzmann’s ideas on the relationship between the thermodynamical properties of macroscopic bodies and their microscopic mechanical constitution, and the role of probability in this r...

Ludwig - Maximilians - Universität München

In this work we recall and discuss optimality criteria for decision making under uncertainty with respect to different assumptions concerning the structure of the information available. First, an overview of the basic concepts of classical decision theory is given. Here, particular emphasis is placed on explaining classical decision criteria (i.e. criteria for the case that the uncertainty can ...

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

This article summarizes the status of the Tevatron Run II searches for lepto-quarks in p¯ p collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV. The analyses discussed use datasets with integrated luminosities ranging from 72 pb −1 to 200 pb −1 .