S U M M A R Y The Crandall Canyon Mine, Utah, collapse in 2007 August resulted in a total of nine fatalities. We processed data from the ALOS satellite acquired before and after the collapse to quantify surface subsidence associated with the collapse to better understand the collapse process. The deformation shows a steep V-shaped pattern of subsidence with slight asymmetry.We compare the fit o...

T his is an important book. This is so in spite of the fact that the publisher, Louisiana State University Press, is not one of the major academic presses, and in spite of the fact that Kelley is not a name known everywhere in the Anglo-American philosophical world. The importance of the book has three sources. First, it is a defense of a striking proposal-what Melley calls the "realist theory ...

John Gray, Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and the author of the book under review should not be confused with the John Gray who thinks that men are from Mars and women from Venus. Our man is a political philosopher, best known for a string of books on liberalism and a lot less sanguine about the prospects for humanity than his New Age namesake. In fact, perhaps ...

For the past two decades, the postmodern debates dominated the cultural and intellectual scene in many fields throughout the world. In aesthetic and cultural theory, polemics emerged over whether modernism in the arts was or was not dead and what sort of postmodern art was succeeding it. In philosophy, debates erupted concerning whether or not the tradition of modern philosophy had ended, and m...

This paper extends tools developed by Richard Crandall in [16] to provide robust, high-precision methods for computation of the incomplete Gamma function and the Lerch transcendent. We then apply these to the corresponding computation of the Hurwitz zeta function and so of Dirichlet L-series and character polylogarithms.

We study analytic properties of the Witten zeta function W(r, s, t), which is also named after Mordell and Tornheim. In particular, we evaluate the function W(s, s, τs) (τ > 0) at s = 0 and, as our main result, find the derivative of this function at s = 0. Our principal tool is an identity due to Crandall that involves a free parameter and provides an analytic continuation. Furthermore, we der...