IF evidence were wanted of the recent progress of the study of pure mathematics on English and American soil, none better could be furnished than the appearance on the two sides of the Atlantic, ...

Set theory, the mathematical study of collections of objects, forms a foundation for much of modern mathematics, while cardinal functions provide a means to quantify the sizes of these sets, ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 84, No. 294 (JULY 2015), pp. 1835-1860 (26 pages) The Padé approximation has a long and rich history of theory and application and is known to produce excellent local ...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate etiological accounts of functions for the domain of technical artefacts. Etiological theories ascribe functions to items on the basis of the causal histories of ...

For the second time in recent months, Sen. Rand Paul, a conservative Republican from Kentucky, sparred with Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, ...

A chemist and a collaborator have developed a new theory for explaining how proteins and other biomolecules function based on movement and change of shape and structure rather than content. A ...

All prerequisite courses must be passed with a grade of C- or better. For official course descriptions, please see the current CU-Boulder Catalog. MATH 3001 Analysis 1 Provides a rigorous treatment of ...

The pattern recognition theory of humor is an evolutionary and cognitive explanation of how and why any individual finds anything funny. Effectively it explains that humor occurs when the brain ...

Is the best way to protect people from a dangerous virus to create one in a lab? That's the central question in the debate over gain-of-function research, a branch of virology that alters viruses in a ...

The core concepts involved in Theory of Mind are beliefs, desires, and intentions, which are used to understand why someone acts in a certain way or to predict how someone will act (Kloo et al., 2010) ...