W. H. KEULEN, Apuleius Madaurensis Metamorphoses

Apuleius and the Classical Canon

I begin with the question, “Is Apuleius a canonical author?” Any answer that one might give would of course raise other questions; and in the context of this volume, the most important of these would be whether Apuleius’ African origin enters into it. But before confronting that question, I have to address a few others that are more basic. For one can hardly get started on this problem until as...

Dr W. H. Hylton

Dr William H. Hylton, formerly a general practitioner in Clevedon died suddenly on March 20th at the age of 83. William Hawkins Hylton?Bill, was born in Leeds in 1906. He was educated at Bridlington College. His father ran a building firm but died tragically of acute appendicitis when his son was aged 14. Bill intending to pursue the same career entered Leeds University and took a degree in eng...

Metamorphoses : The Myth of Evolutionary Possibility

Metamorphoses Through Lie Group Action

We formally analyze a computational problem which has important applications in image understanding and shape analysis. The problem can be summarized as follows. Starting from a group action on a Riemannian manifold M , we introduce a modification of the metric by partly expressing displacements on M as an effect of the action of some group element. The study of this new structure relates to ev...

Dr. W. H. S. Walker