Methodist Missionaries in Yokohama

Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn.

THIS SITE. During the past five years, worship services have been conducted the third Sunday in each month with annual Homecoming observances and a Christmas Love Feast each December. A number of memorials have been presented and an unusual historical exhibit is on display in the narthex. A bronze marker denoting the December, 1828 conference has been dedicated. Efforts continued through the As...

Confessions of a Formal Methodist

Yokohama, 236–0027

In this paper we revisit the isomorphism SU(2) ⊗ SU(2) ∼= SO(4) to apply to some subjects in Quantum Computation and Mathematical Physics. The unitary matrix Q by Makhlin giving the isomorphism as an adjoint action is studied and generalized from a different point of view. Some problems are also presented. In particular, the homogeneous manifold SU(2n)/SO(2n) which characterizes entanglements i...

The Coliseum disaster: aftermath at Methodist Hospital.

Missionaries and Cannibals in the Causal Calculator

A knowledge representation formalism is \elaboration tolerant" to the extent that it is convenient to modify a set of facts expressed in the formalism to take into account new phenomena or changed circumstances. John McCarthy illustrated this idea by deening 19 elaborations of the Missionaries and Cannibals Problem. We argue that, to a certain degree, the goal of elaboration tolerance is met by...