According to the testimony of Ptolemy, which we know through Arrian, it has been assumed that Alexander the Great suffered a pneumothorax during his campaign against the Malli. In general, this assumption has been interpreted as a historical fact in medical literature. We consulted the same sources and concluded that it is unlikely that Alexander's arrow wound had given him a pneumothorax. In a...

Recently Schrijver’s open problem, whether the Chvátal-Gomory closure of an irrational polytope is polyhedral was answered independently in the seminal works of Dadush et al. [2011] and Dunkel and Schulz [2010]; the former even applies to general compact convex sets. We present a very short, easily accessible proof.

Isomorphism classes of Alexander quandles of order 16 are determined, and classes of connected quandles are identified. This paper extends the list of distinct connected finite Alexander quandles.

The Alexander dual of an arbitrary meet-semilattice is described explicitly. Meet-distributive meet-semilattices whose Alexander dual is level are characterized.

We start with a discussion on Alexander invariants, and then prove some general results concerning the divisibility of the Alexander polynomials and the supports of the Alexander modules, via Artin’s vanishing theorem for perverse sheaves. We conclude with explicit computations of twisted cohomology following an idea already exploited in the hyperplane arrangement case, which combines the degen...

historical memory or collective memory, in studies on cultural history and history of ideas, is often neglected. it is sufficient, for example, look at the names and titles to learn of the common view of a nation. this is true about alexander’s image in our culture. in our culture and some others, alexander is a myth and sometimes a unique hero. shahnameh can demonstrate this historical memory ...

Author Affiliations: Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (Hwang, Turner, Kruszewski, Alexander); Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (Hwang, Turner, Alexander); Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (K...

a Department of Dermatology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hartmannstr. 14, 91054 Erlangen, Germany b Department of Virology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 21, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00014, Finland c Department of Internal Medicine V, Haematology and Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hartma...