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Mathematics From A World View Perspective, Jonathan Zderad Jun 2005

Mathematics From A World View Perspective, Jonathan Zderad

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

No abstract provided.


Artificial Intelligence: Can We Create Machines In Our Own Image?, Derek C. Schuurman Jun 2005

Artificial Intelligence: Can We Create Machines In Our Own Image?, Derek C. Schuurman

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

No abstract provided.


Determinants And Zero Divisors In Rings Of Matrices, Gary L. Raduns, Wolfgang Kappe Jun 2005

Determinants And Zero Divisors In Rings Of Matrices, Gary L. Raduns, Wolfgang Kappe

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

No abstract provided.


The Consequences Of Believing In An Infinite God, John T. Noonan Jun 2005

The Consequences Of Believing In An Infinite God, John T. Noonan

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

No abstract provided.


Technology And Formation: How Does Computing Shape Us?, Cary C. Gray Jun 2005

Technology And Formation: How Does Computing Shape Us?, Cary C. Gray

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

No abstract provided.


Nicole Oresme - An Invitation, Fernando Q. Gouvea Jun 2005

Nicole Oresme - An Invitation, Fernando Q. Gouvea

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

No abstract provided.


Object Information Repository In Christian Theory Of Technology, Longy O. Anyanwu Jun 2005

Object Information Repository In Christian Theory Of Technology, Longy O. Anyanwu

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

No abstract provided.


The Divine Challenge: On Matter, Mind, Math And Meaning, By John Byl, Russell W. Howell Jun 2005

The Divine Challenge: On Matter, Mind, Math And Meaning, By John Byl, Russell W. Howell

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

A book review of The Divine Challenge: On Matter, Mind, Math and Meaning (2004, Banner of Truth Trust) by John Byl.


James Clerk Maxwell And Why Read Biographies, Sean Bird Jun 2005

James Clerk Maxwell And Why Read Biographies, Sean Bird

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

Why do we read about the lives of others? This paper discusses the value of reading biographies and examines the life of physicist-mathematician James Clerk Maxwell.


Jesus, Plato, Math And Theology: What Is Truth?, Paul Moffett Jun 2005

Jesus, Plato, Math And Theology: What Is Truth?, Paul Moffett

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

Mathematical ontology is relevant to Christians because so much of Christian theology has been historically shaped by Platonic mathematics and the ontology that goes with it. The various contributors to Mathematics in a Postmodern Age, edited by Howell and Bradley, seem to assume that Christians are necessarily realists in ontology, and they are not alone. But what is the cause of this Christian connection with mathematical realism in ontology? How much has our idea of God been shaped by Plato and his mathematics?


Blaise Pascal - Mathematician, Mystic, Disciple, Tim Rogalsky Jun 2005

Blaise Pascal - Mathematician, Mystic, Disciple, Tim Rogalsky

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

This is the story of a multi-faceted Christian mathematician. Instrumental in the development of calculus, probability theory, and computing machines, Pascal (1623-1662) was a man equally enamoured with mind and spirit. His conversion experience was marked by both rational decision and mystical vision. He is perhaps best known for "Pascal's wager," which simplistic "fire insurance" version of Christianity, demanding little from the convert. However, a more careful reading of his work and his life reveals that Pascal knew much about discipleship and its cost.


Call For A Non-Euclidean, Post-Cantorian Theology, Saburo Matsumoto Jun 2005

Call For A Non-Euclidean, Post-Cantorian Theology, Saburo Matsumoto

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

In this paper I propose a new approach to theology, which I refer to as a "non-Euclidean, post-Cantorian" theology. I first review three accomplishments in modern mathematics with lasting philosophical implications: non-Euclidean geometry, set theory, and the Incompleteness Theorems of Gödel. Since all of these are ideas that came after much of traditional theology had already been formed, I challenge that theology be revisited in light of what we can learn from the mathematical struggles that produced these amazing and counter-intuitive truths. I give some concrete examples and propose that such an effort can make non-trivial contribution in theology and …


Vi.31: A Generalization Of The Pythagorean Theorem, Timothy Sipka Jun 2005

Vi.31: A Generalization Of The Pythagorean Theorem, Timothy Sipka

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

No abstract provided.


A Christian Perspective For A First Course In Calculus, Darrell E. Allgaier Jun 2005

A Christian Perspective For A First Course In Calculus, Darrell E. Allgaier

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

No abstract provided.


Monomial Nonnegativity And The Bruhat Order, Brian Drake, Sean Gerrish, Mark Skandera Jun 2005

Monomial Nonnegativity And The Bruhat Order, Brian Drake, Sean Gerrish, Mark Skandera

Dartmouth Scholarship

We show that five nonnegativity properties of polynomials coincide when restricted to polynomials of the form x1, pi(1) ... xn,pi(n) - x1, sigma(1) ... xn, sigma(n), where $\pi and sigma are permutations in Sn. In particular, we show that each of these properties may be used to characterize the Bruhat order on Sn.


Explicit Computations Supporting A Generalization Of Serre's Conjecture, Brian Francis Hansen Jun 2005

Explicit Computations Supporting A Generalization Of Serre's Conjecture, Brian Francis Hansen

Theses and Dissertations

Serre's conjecture on the modularity of Galois representations makes a connection between two-dimensional Galois representations and modular forms. A conjecture by Ash, Doud, and Pollack generalizes Serre's to higher-dimensional Galois representations. In this paper we discuss an explicit computational example supporting the generalized claim. An ambiguity in a calculation within the example is resolved using a method of complex approximation.


Bibliography Of Christianity And Mathematics, Gene B. Chase Jun 2005

Bibliography Of Christianity And Mathematics, Gene B. Chase

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

The invited address provides historiographic background for the second edition of Bibliography of Christianity and Mathematics. The second edition builds on the first edition written jointly with Calvin Jongsma, on the historiographic work of Ivor Grattan-Guiness, and on the computer skills of Gregory Ross.


Filtering The Bible And Filtering Spam, Gene B. Chase Jun 2005

Filtering The Bible And Filtering Spam, Gene B. Chase

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

I argue that John Craig (1996?–1731) is the first to do Bayesian statistics. Filtering email spam today using Bayes's analysis of 1763 is a new application of an old theorem. Craig 67 years before Bayes's theorem used subjective probabilities reasoning to argue that Jesus would return in the year 3150, because the Bible would eventually come into disrepute (become spam?) then.


Asserting Cs != Can't Spcialize, Building Community In A Computer Science Program, Kim Kihlstrom Jun 2005

Asserting Cs != Can't Spcialize, Building Community In A Computer Science Program, Kim Kihlstrom

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

As humans, we are designed to live in community. "Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others" (Romans 12:4-5). We believe it is of critical importance to build community within a computer science program, first of all because it is part of God's calling for us. In addition, building communit allows us to equip students with the interpersonal skills that they need for a productive career, and to attract …


Reflections Upon The Relationship Between Mathematical And Biblical Truth, Dale L. Mcintyre Jun 2005

Reflections Upon The Relationship Between Mathematical And Biblical Truth, Dale L. Mcintyre

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

No abstract provided.


On The Metamorphosis Of Vandermonde's Identity, Don Rawlings, Lawrence Sze Jun 2005

On The Metamorphosis Of Vandermonde's Identity, Don Rawlings, Lawrence Sze

Mathematics

No abstract provided.


Counting On Determinants, Arthur T. Benjamin, Naiomi T. Cameron Jun 2005

Counting On Determinants, Arthur T. Benjamin, Naiomi T. Cameron

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

No abstract provided in this article.


Schedule (2005), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences Jun 2005

Schedule (2005), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

Fifteenth Conference of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences


Table Of Contents (2005), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences Jun 2005

Table Of Contents (2005), Association Of Christians In The Mathematical Sciences

ACMS Conference Proceedings 2005

Fifteenth Conference of the Association of Christians in the Mathematical Sciences


Book Review: Across The Board: The Mathematics Of Chessboard Problems By John J. Watkins, Arthur T. Benjamin Jun 2005

Book Review: Across The Board: The Mathematics Of Chessboard Problems By John J. Watkins, Arthur T. Benjamin

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

I think I became a mathematician because I loved to play games as a child. I learned about probability and expectation by playing games like backgammon, bridge, and Risk. But I experienced the greater thrill of careful deductive reasoning through games like Mastermind and chess. In fact, for many years I took the game of chess quite seriously and played in many tournaments. But I gave up the game when I started college and turned my attention to more serious pursuits, like learning real mathematics.


Singular Positone And Semipositone Boundary Value Problems Of Second Order Delay Differential Equations, Daqing Jiang, Xiaojie Xu, Donal O'Regan, Ravi P. Agarwal Jun 2005

Singular Positone And Semipositone Boundary Value Problems Of Second Order Delay Differential Equations, Daqing Jiang, Xiaojie Xu, Donal O'Regan, Ravi P. Agarwal

Mathematics and System Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper we present some new existence results for singular positone and semipositone boundary value problems of second order delay differential equations. Throughout our nonlinearity may be singular in its dependent variable.


Factoring Higher-Dimensional Shifts Of Finite Type Onto The Full Shift, Aimee S.A. Johnson, K. Madden Jun 2005

Factoring Higher-Dimensional Shifts Of Finite Type Onto The Full Shift, Aimee S.A. Johnson, K. Madden

Mathematics & Statistics Faculty Works

A one-dimensional shift of finite type with entropy at least log factors onto the full -shift. The factor map is constructed by exploiting the fact that , or a subshift of , is conjugate to a shift of finite type in which every symbol can be followed by at least symbols. We will investigate analogous statements for higher-dimensional shifts of finite type. We will also show that for a certain class of mixing higher-dimensional shifts of finite type, sufficient entropy implies that is finitely equivalent to a shift of finite type that maps onto the full -shift.


Self And On-Selfadjoint Sturm-Liouville Operators With Exponentially Decaying Potentials, Alain Kerouanton Jun 2005

Self And On-Selfadjoint Sturm-Liouville Operators With Exponentially Decaying Potentials, Alain Kerouanton

Doctoral

In this thesis we investigate the properties of a class of linear differential operators known as Sturm-Liouville operators. Sturm-Liouville operators arise from differential equations of the form - y”+q(x)y = λy, where q is known as the potential and λ is a spectral parameter. This differential equation has been of great importance in mathematics and physics alike. We allow the potential to be real or complex valued and assume that q satisfies |q(x)|≤ce-ax, x≥0, where a >0 and c > 0. We first give a brief account of the mathematical background we will be using and then proceed to give a …


Self-Similar Measures Associated To {Ifs} With Non-Uniform Contraction Ratios, Sze-Man Ngai, Yang Wang Jun 2005

Self-Similar Measures Associated To {Ifs} With Non-Uniform Contraction Ratios, Sze-Man Ngai, Yang Wang

Mathematical Sciences: Faculty Publications

In this paper we study the absolute continuity of self-similar measures defined by iterated function systems (IFS) whose contraction ratios are not uniform. We introduce a transversality condition for a multi-parameter family of IFS and study the absolute continuity of the corresponding self-similar measures. Our study is a natural extension of the study of Bernoulli convolutions by Solomyak, Peres, et al.


Influences Of Surfactant On The Breakup Of A Fluid Jet In Viscous Surrounding, Muhammad Irfan Hameed May 2005

Influences Of Surfactant On The Breakup Of A Fluid Jet In Viscous Surrounding, Muhammad Irfan Hameed

Dissertations

The effect of insoluble surfactant on the breakup of a fluid jet surrounded by another viscous fluid at low Reynolds number is studied both theoretically and experimentally. Equations governing the evolution of the interface and surfactant concentration are derived using a long wavelength approximation for the case of an inviscid jet and a slightly viscous jet surrounded by a more viscous fluid. These one dimensional partial differential equations governing the evolution of the slender jet are solved numerically for given initial interfacial perturbations and surfactant concentration. It is found that the presence of insoluble surfactant at the interface retards the …