Syllabus of Historical Geology

Geological reasoning: Geology as an interpretive and historical science

The standard account of the reasoning process within geology views it as lacking a distinctive methodology of its own. Rather, geology is described as a derivative science, relying on the logical techniques exemplified by physics. I argue that this account is inadequate and skews our understanding of both geology and the scientific process in general. Far from simply taking up and applying the ...

Syllabus of Materia Medica

Syllabus: Bifurcations

Recall that a homeomorphism is a continuous bijection with a continuous inverse. Definition 1.1. Let U be a domain in R. Consider vector fields X,Y ∈ X(U) with flows F , F : I × U → U , where I is an open interval in R such that 0 ∈ I. The dynamics of X and Y is said to be C-equivalent if there exists a homeomorphism φ : U → U with the following property: for all t ∈ I there exists a t′ ∈ I suc...

the pathology of historical texts translation: a study of persian translations of 7th volume of cambridge history of iran

ترجمه با گسترش زبان آغاز شده و اهمیت آن روز به روز افزایش می یابد، و برای اولین بار به عنوان شاخه ای از دانش و روشی برای انتقال علوم، فرهنگ و تجربه در در دوره قاجار در ایران آغاز شد. در حقیقت متون تاریخی از اولین متونی هستند که در ایران ترجمه شدند چرا که به سیاستمداران آن دوره کمک می کردند تا به علل موفقیت جهان غرب و پیشرفت هایشان در طول تاریخ پی ببرند، بنابراین به تدریج ترجمه این گونه متون رون...

Qualifying Exam Syllabus Proposal

Exam Committee Exam Logistics Committee Chairperson: Date: Prof. Monica Vazirani Thursday September 3, 2015 Committee Members: Time: Prof. Dan Romik 11AM-2PM Assoc. Fu Liu Location: Prof. Greg Kuperberg MSB 3106 Prof. Francisco J. Samaniego 1 Proposed Research Talk 1.1 The Catalan numbers and q-analogues. A lattice path is a sequence of North N(0, 1) and East E(1, 0) steps in the first quadrant...