Tree Ordination as Invented Tradition

The Ninja: An Invented Tradition?

Invented Antonyms: Esperanto as a Semantic Lab∗

This paper uses Esperanto—a constructed language with transparent morphology but rich semantic-pragmatic components—to study antonymy and polarity. We investigate the distribution of the Esperanto antonymy morpheme ‘mal-’ (as in, for instance, ‘mal-alta’: antonym-tall, short) in a 4.3 million-word corpus, Tekstaro, and use it as an empirical basis to assess different theories of negative antony...

Who Invented Dirac’s Delta Function?

The Dirac delta function has solid roots in 19th century work in Fourier analysis by Cauchy and others, anticipating Dirac’s discovery by over a century.

The Man Who Invented Music

We all know Pythagoras did quite a lot for high school mathematics; most of us are aware that his "Theorem" is also the basis for trigonometry, and trigonometry is the theoretical background to that most fundamental of sound waves, the sine wave. But that is not even scratching the surface of the work of the Pythagorean School. The man himself, and his own ideas, are only known to us through th...

XEDS in the AEM: Has Everything Thing That Can be Invented, Been Invented?

There is a fairly old apocryphal quotation stating : “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” [1] attributed at one time to Charles H. Duell of the US Patent office in 1899. We all realize this is an absurd statement, and it is well documented that Duell actually said something quite different and urged the US Congress to encourage the advancement of science as well as to improve th...