These are some notes that I collected from my readings about Riemann surfaces. Most of the notes are based on Beardon’s book Primer on Riemann Surfaces. These notes will serve as my lecture notes for a 25 minute talk I am giving in my Algebraic Topology class. I was not able to cover the last section during the talk.

Althouch this little book contains nearly 550 pages, it can be comfortably placed in the pocket. It consists of the following parts : (i) Formulaire clinique, giving a concise but satisfactory resume of the treatment of disorders and diseases ; (ii) Regimes alimentaires ; (iii) Opotherapie ; (iv) Serotherapie and vaccinotherapie, in which the typhoid vaccine is directed to be given intravenousl...

diseases, and of the most recent methods in diagnosis and treatment. The book includes also " the gastro-intestinal clinic," in which all such diseases are separately considered. The contents are divided up into four sections, containing 82 chapters, and interspersed with 112 illustrations. Part I. is made up of three lectures giving the anatomic, physiologic, clinic, and diagnostic data. Part ...

The urge to theorize has been a driving force of Western intellectual tradition. It underlies academic discourse, giving the scientific enterprise its vitality. Without systematic theorizing much of contemporary culture, particularly technology, would be virtually unthinkable. Disciplines Communication This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/296

This chapter introduces the fundamentals of Open Source Software, its nature, the central economic aspects and the key mechanisms of its development. Furthermore, we present the themes of the book and provide a first overview for the reader by giving short summaries of its chapters.

The urge to theorize has been a driving force of Western intellectual tradition. It underlies academic discourse, giving the scientific enterprise its vitality. Without systematic theorizing, much of contemporary culture, particularly technology, would be virtually unthinkable. This book chapter is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/97

specifically applied to the unique challenges of studying plants. The book claims to assume no specialized knowledge of plant biology and indeed goes in some detail into necessary background information and terms. And herein lies the problem with this book. By being limited to so few pages, the book at times seems to pick and choose what to focus on, covering in excellent detail and clarity som...

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Editor—Thank you for giving us the opportunity to respond to the letter from Dr Ward—we thank him for his comments. While we applaud the messages in the most recent Davies report to which Dr Ward refers, his reference to Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, Lean in: Women, work and the will to lead deserves further discussion. In our editorial, we referred to Sheryl Sandberg’s TED Talk from 2010 where s...

This article aims to give an overview of Carnap’s 1928 book Logical Structure of the World or Aufbau and the most influential interpretations of its significance. After giving an outline of the book in Section 2, I turn to the first sustained interpretations of the book offered by Goodman and Quine in Section 3. Section 4 explains how this empirical reductionist interpretation was largely displ...