Sporting Sketches

Sporting Traditions

This book represents a delightful collection of essays on Welsh sport, in particular the Welsh sport of rugby union football and its place in Welsh society. Gareth Williams has provided sports historians with some of the best accounts of sport in the Principality over the years and 1905 And All That is no exception. Avid readers of sports history will recognise some of the articles, however, si...

Sketches for Design and Design of Sketches

Design consists of generating ideas and adapting them to users. Cognitive research can give insights into each of these processes. Here, we describe two projects involving sketches. Sketches are cognitive tools; they have many uses, among them: to promote inferences and new ideas; to organize and convey information. For the former, ambiguity is productive; for the latter, clarity is necessary. ...

A Sporting Chance

Tears flowed like spring rain as the elfin A ustra lian realised that she had be­ come the country’s first track and field medallist for 16 years ... There were women athletes at the Olympics who were distinguished by moustaches and physiques that would alarm Dean Lukin, and it is enough to say that Glynis Nunn was not one of them. She was an a th le te of und im in ished femininity who smiled ...

Finitary Sketches

Finitary sketches, i.e., sketches with nite-limit and nite-colimit specii-cations, are proved to be as strong as geometric sketches, i.e., sketches with nite-limit and arbitrary colimit speciications. Categories sketchable by such sketches are fully characterized in the innnitary rst-order logic: they are axiomatizable by-coherent theories, i.e., basic theories using nite conjunctions, countabl...

Proof Sketches