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On The Indispensable Premises Of The Indispensability Argument, Andrea Sereni, Marco Panza Dec 2014

On The Indispensable Premises Of The Indispensability Argument, Andrea Sereni, Marco Panza

MPP Published Research

We identify four different minimal versions of the indispensability argument, falling under four different varieties: an epistemic argument for semantic realism, an epistemic argument for platonism and a non-epistemic version of both. We argue that most current formulations of the argument can be reconstructed by building upon the suggested minimal versions. Part of our discussion relies on a clarification of the notion of (in)dispensability as relational in character. We then present some substantive consequences of our inquiry for the philosophical significance of the indispensability argument, the most relevant of which being that both naturalism and confirmational holism can be dispensed …


Absolute Continuity Under Time Shift For Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Type Processes With Delay Or Anticipation, Jörg-Uwe Löbus Dec 2014

Absolute Continuity Under Time Shift For Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Type Processes With Delay Or Anticipation, Jörg-Uwe Löbus

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


An Epsilon-Nash Equilibrium For Non-Linear Markov Games Of Mean-Field-Type On Finite Spaces, Rani Basna, Astrid Hilbert, Vassili N Kolokoltsov Dec 2014

An Epsilon-Nash Equilibrium For Non-Linear Markov Games Of Mean-Field-Type On Finite Spaces, Rani Basna, Astrid Hilbert, Vassili N Kolokoltsov

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Large Deviations Estimates For Some White Noise Distributions, Sonia Chaari, Achref Majid, Habib Ouerdiane Dec 2014

Large Deviations Estimates For Some White Noise Distributions, Sonia Chaari, Achref Majid, Habib Ouerdiane

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Parameter Estimation From Occupation Times—A White Noise Approach, Wolfgang Bock, Thomas Götz, Martin Grothaus, Uditha Prabhath Liyanage Dec 2014

Parameter Estimation From Occupation Times—A White Noise Approach, Wolfgang Bock, Thomas Götz, Martin Grothaus, Uditha Prabhath Liyanage

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Metastable Behavior For Conservative Dynamics On A Finite Box With Open Boundary, Taizo Chiyonobu, Yusuke Takagi Dec 2014

Metastable Behavior For Conservative Dynamics On A Finite Box With Open Boundary, Taizo Chiyonobu, Yusuke Takagi

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Absence Of Energy Level Crossing For The Ground State Energy Of The Rabi Model, Masao Hirokawa, Fumio Hiroshima Dec 2014

Absence Of Energy Level Crossing For The Ground State Energy Of The Rabi Model, Masao Hirokawa, Fumio Hiroshima

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


An Entropy Approach To Bose-Einstein Condensation, Francesco De Vecchi, Stefania Ugolini Dec 2014

An Entropy Approach To Bose-Einstein Condensation, Francesco De Vecchi, Stefania Ugolini

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Higher Powers Of Quantum White Noise Derivatives, Aymen Ettaieb, Habib Ouerdiane, Hafedh Rguigui Dec 2014

Higher Powers Of Quantum White Noise Derivatives, Aymen Ettaieb, Habib Ouerdiane, Hafedh Rguigui

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


The Structure And Properties Of Clique Graphs Of Regular Graphs, Jan Burmeister Dec 2014

The Structure And Properties Of Clique Graphs Of Regular Graphs, Jan Burmeister

Master's Theses

In the following thesis, the structure and properties of G and its clique graph clt (G) are analyzed for graphs G that are non-complete, regular with degree δ , and where every edge of G is contained in a t -clique. In a clique graph clt (G), all cliques of order t of the original graph G become the clique graph’s vertices, and the vertices of the clique graph are adjacent if and only if the corresponding cliques in the original graph have at least 1 vertex in common. This thesis mainly investigates if …


Radio Number For Fourth Power Paths, Linda V. Alegria Dec 2014

Radio Number For Fourth Power Paths, Linda V. Alegria

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

A path on n vertices, denoted by Pn, is a simple graph whose vertices can be ordered so that two vertices are adjacent if and only if they are consecutive in the order. A fourth power path, Pn4, is obtained from Pn by adding edges between any two vertices, u and v, whose distance in Pn, denoted by dPn(u,v), is less than or equal to four. The diameter of a graph G, denoted diam(G) is the greatest distance between any two distinct vertices of G. A radio labeling of a graph G is a function f that assigns to each …


A Game-Theoretic Analysis Of The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Peter Revesz Nov 2014

A Game-Theoretic Analysis Of The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Peter Revesz

CSE Conference and Workshop Papers

Although nuclear non-proliferation is an almost universal human desire, in practice, the negotiated treaties appear unable to prevent the steady growth of the number of states that have nuclear weapons. We propose a computational model for understanding the complex issues behind nuclear arms negotiations, the motivations of various states to enter a nuclear weapons program and the ways to diffuse crisis situations.


An Extended Novikov-Type Criterion For Local Martingales With Jumps, Alexander Sokol Sep 2014

An Extended Novikov-Type Criterion For Local Martingales With Jumps, Alexander Sokol

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Powers Of An Infinite Dimensional Brownian Motion Associated With The Product Of Distributions, Kimiaki Saitô, Takashi Shimada Sep 2014

Powers Of An Infinite Dimensional Brownian Motion Associated With The Product Of Distributions, Kimiaki Saitô, Takashi Shimada

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Stokes Formula On The Space Of Tempered Distributions, S Chaari, F Cipriano, H.-H. Kuo, H Ouerdiane Sep 2014

Stokes Formula On The Space Of Tempered Distributions, S Chaari, F Cipriano, H.-H. Kuo, H Ouerdiane

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Control Of A Finite Dam With A Lévy Input, Mohamed Abdel-Hameed Sep 2014

Control Of A Finite Dam With A Lévy Input, Mohamed Abdel-Hameed

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Global Existence And Finite Time Blow-Up In A Class Of Stochastic Nonlinear Wave Equations, Rana D Parshad, Matthew A Beauregard, Aslan Kasimov, Belkacem Said-Houari Sep 2014

Global Existence And Finite Time Blow-Up In A Class Of Stochastic Nonlinear Wave Equations, Rana D Parshad, Matthew A Beauregard, Aslan Kasimov, Belkacem Said-Houari

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


3-D Stochastic Micropolar And Magneto-Micropolar Fluid Systems With Non-Lipschitz Multiplicative Noise, Kazuo Yamazaki Sep 2014

3-D Stochastic Micropolar And Magneto-Micropolar Fluid Systems With Non-Lipschitz Multiplicative Noise, Kazuo Yamazaki

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


A Coarsening Of The Strong Mixing Condition, Brendan K Beare Sep 2014

A Coarsening Of The Strong Mixing Condition, Brendan K Beare

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


An Analysis Of Stochastic Flows, A A Dorogovtsev, I. I. Nishchenko Sep 2014

An Analysis Of Stochastic Flows, A A Dorogovtsev, I. I. Nishchenko

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Kazhdan-Lusztig Cells In Planar Hyperbolic Coxeter Groups And Automata, Mikhail V. Belolipetsky, Paul E. Gunnells, Richard A. Scott Aug 2014

Kazhdan-Lusztig Cells In Planar Hyperbolic Coxeter Groups And Automata, Mikhail V. Belolipetsky, Paul E. Gunnells, Richard A. Scott

Paul Gunnells

Let C be a one- or two-sided Kazhdan–Lusztig cell in a Coxeter group (W, S), and let Red(C) be the set of reduced expressions of all w ∈ C, regarded as a language over the alphabet S. Casselman has conjectured that Red(C) is regular. In this paper, we give a conjectural description of the cells when W is the group corresponding to a hyperbolic polygon, and show that our conjectures imply Casselman's.


Examining The Process Of Identification In The Mathematics Classroom And The Role Of Students’ Academic Communities, Richard J. Robinson Aug 2014

Examining The Process Of Identification In The Mathematics Classroom And The Role Of Students’ Academic Communities, Richard J. Robinson

Doctoral Dissertations

The primary purpose of this research was to provide insight into the identities students develop as they interact in a high school mathematics classroom. A normative divide developed which eventually split the classroom into two distinct academic factions: those who resisted the emerging local definition of what it meant to do mathematics and those who did not resist (i.e. complied or identified). A secondary purpose of this research was to understand the role of students’ academic communities in mathematics identity development. Student narratives helped uncover mathematical spaces outside the classroom that each developed their own unique definition of what it …


The Neural Ring: Using Algebraic Geometry To Analyze Neural Codes, Nora Youngs Aug 2014

The Neural Ring: Using Algebraic Geometry To Analyze Neural Codes, Nora Youngs

Department of Mathematics: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Neurons in the brain represent external stimuli via neural codes. These codes often arise from stimulus-response maps, associating to each neuron a convex receptive field. An important problem confronted by the brain is to infer properties of a represented stimulus space without knowledge of the receptive fields, using only the intrinsic structure of the neural code. How does the brain do this? To address this question, it is important to determine what stimulus space features can - in principle - be extracted from neural codes. This motivates us to define the neural ring and a related neural ideal, algebraic objects …


The Discipline Of History And The “Modern Consensus In The Historiography Of Mathematics”, Michael N. Fried Jul 2014

The Discipline Of History And The “Modern Consensus In The Historiography Of Mathematics”, Michael N. Fried

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Teachers and students of mathematics often view history of mathematics as just mathematics as they know it, but in another form. This view is based on a misunderstanding of the nature of history of mathematics and the kind of knowledge it attempts to acquire. Unfortunately, it can also lead to a deep sense of disappointment with the history of mathematics itself, and, ultimately, a misunderstanding of the historical nature of mathematics. This kind of misunderstanding and the disappointment following from it--both raised to the level of resentment--run through the paper "A Critique of the Modern Consensus in the Historiography of …


A Critique Of The Modern Consensus In The Historiography Of Mathematics, Viktor Blåsjö Jul 2014

A Critique Of The Modern Consensus In The Historiography Of Mathematics, Viktor Blåsjö

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

The history of mathematics is nowadays practiced primarily by professional historians rather than mathematicians, as was the norm a few decades ago. There is a strong consensus among these historians that the old-fashioned style of history is “obsolete,” and that “the gains in historical understanding are incomparably greater” in the more “historically sensitive” works of today. I maintain that this self-congratulatory attitude is ill-founded, and that the alleged superiority of modern historiographical standards ultimately rests on a dubious redefinition of the purpose of history rather than intrinsic merit.


Being Reasonable: Using Brainteasers To Develop Reasoning Ability In Humanistic Mathematics Courses, Gary Stogsdill Jul 2014

Being Reasonable: Using Brainteasers To Develop Reasoning Ability In Humanistic Mathematics Courses, Gary Stogsdill

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

Developing reasoning ability is often cited as one of the principal justifications of a mathematics requirement for liberal arts undergraduates. Humanistic math courses have become recognized as a paradigm for liberal arts mathematics, but such courses may not provide the opportunity to develop reasoning ability. The author describes his procedure for using brainteasers to promote reasoning in a humanistic math course for liberal arts undergraduates.


Some Effects Of The Human Genome Project On The Erdős Collaboration Graph, Chris Fields Jul 2014

Some Effects Of The Human Genome Project On The Erdős Collaboration Graph, Chris Fields

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

The Human Genome Project introduced large-scale collaborations involving dozens to hundreds of scientists into biology. It also created a pressing need to solve discrete mathematics problems involving tens of thousands of elements. In this paper, we use minimal path lengths in the Erdős Collaboration Graph between prominent individual researchers as a measure of the distance between disciplines, and we show that the Human Genome Project brought laboratory biology as a whole closer to mathematics. We also define a novel graph reduction method and a metric that emphasizes the robustness of collaborative connections between researchers; these can facilitate the analysis of …


Review Of The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour Of Math, From One To Infinity By Steven Strogatz, Michael T. Catalano Jul 2014

Review Of The Joy Of X: A Guided Tour Of Math, From One To Infinity By Steven Strogatz, Michael T. Catalano

Numeracy

Strogatz, Steven. The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity, (New York, NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012). 316 pp. ISBN 978-0-547-51765-0

The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity, by Steven Strogatz, is an engaging and example-filled argument for mathematics as a valuable and enjoyable activity. The thirty chapters are divided into six parts, entitled Numbers, Relationships, Shapes, Change, Data, and Frontiers. The discussion ranges from intuitive explanations of basic concepts such as place value, the four arithmetic operations, percentage increase and decrease, and solving equations, to “higher” levels …


Distance And Similarity Measures Of Interval Neutrosophic Soft Sets, Said Broumi, Irfan Deli, Florentin Smarandache Jul 2014

Distance And Similarity Measures Of Interval Neutrosophic Soft Sets, Said Broumi, Irfan Deli, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this paper several distance and similarity measures of interval neutrosophic soft sets are introduced. The measures are examined based on the geometric model, the set theoretic approach and the matching function. Finally, we have successfully shown an application of this similarity measure of interval neutrosophic soft sets.


New Distance And Similarity Measures Of Interval Neutrosophic Sets, Said Broumi, Florentin Smarandache Jul 2014

New Distance And Similarity Measures Of Interval Neutrosophic Sets, Said Broumi, Florentin Smarandache

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this paper we proposed a new distance and several similarity measures between interval neutrosophic sets.