5/30/2023 0 Comments The Singularity by Mark RodsethDu Val challenged him into making his claims explicit, which he did the next week! In his article Arf-1949 shows that the completion of the local ring at the singularity of the branch carries all the information necessary to obtain the multiplicity sequence. While Du Val was explaining his findings, a young mathematician in the audience, none other than Cahit Arf, observed and claimed that there was an efficient algebra behind these geometrical arguments. Later Du Val-1942, while he was in ˙ Istanbul University, showed that if the multiplicity sums up to certain geometrically significant steps in the successive blow-up process were known then the whole multiplicity sequence could be obtained from these sums through a modified version of the Jaco-bian algorithm. Among those who attacked this problem we can quote Semple-1938 who analyzed the geometry of successive blow-ups on a singular curve branch in 3-space. The simple question of understanding space curves with singularities, after the plane curves were relatively understood, proved to be mightier than the mortals who asked it. As soon as you pass the level of basic definitions you run into simple questions whose answers lie in deeper waters than one dares to dive. Study of curves is full of lessons in modesty. We also briefly mention current literature on the subject and some related research problems. In this note we summarize Arf's work on Arf rings and discuss its relevance in geometry.
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The proposition is that a multi-dimensional solution based on the material and spiritual aspects of life can influence human action and improve people’s quality of life. Consequently, through a holistic approach this research links spiritual principles to the material life of individuals and families. The discussion will be centered on the Bahá’í belief of unity as a core principle and as a prerequisite for improving the material and spiritual life of the Bahá’í community. This requires extensive study of primary scriptures and institutional resources of the Bahá’í faith. This research will further attempt to explore and develop the understanding of Bahá’í writers and scholars on this subject, and systematise them in a fashion that is accessible to academia, and beneficial to the Bahá’ís, the Bahá’í institutions and the wider society. Therefore, it is timely to carry out a systematic study of the extensive volume of primary writings of the Bahá’í faith on economics and related subjects. The Bahá’í faith has appeared at a time of global social and economic integration and internationalisation of affairs. Baha'i teachings on economics and their implications for the Baha'i community and the wider societyBadee, HooshmandKim, Sebastian Kollontai, Pauline Yore, Sue 5/30/2023 0 Comments Fun home authorHOUSTON – Help your body bounce back into shape with some cardio.Ĭelebrity trainer, Erica Hood with HoodFit, stopped by Houston Life with an easy and fun rebounder trampoline workout you can do at home that will make you sweat.Īccording to Hood, bouncing is an excellent cardiovascular workout that offers many benefits. 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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:01:36 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40767312 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The National Book Award-winning collection of all Flannery OConnor short stories. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Home before dark book seriesIn Sager’s upcoming novel, we meet Maggie Hold 25 years after her family narrowly escapes from Baneberry Hall. Home Before Dark is the Next Great Ghost Story Thanks to the publisher, I’m happy to bring this spoiler-free Home Before Dark review to Comic Years in what I think will end up being one of the year’s strongest works of fiction. In keeping with the trend, Sager will release Home Before Dark on June 30th, 2020 by Dutton/Penguin. Instead, the author followed up with two novels in each following year. The book released in 2017 to international acclaim, with hopes of another book sooner rather than later. The mastery of this author, who operates under a pseudonym, reads more like a story you’d expect from a writer’s second or third book. Riley Sager’s first novel Final Girls was almost unfair for a debut work. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Margot lee shetterly booksIn this beautifully illustrated picture book edition, we explore the story of four female African American mathematicians at NASA, known as “colored computers,” and how they overcame gender and racial barriers to succeed in a highly challenging STEM-based career. And they used their genius minds to change the world. And they did so during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do. They participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America’s first journeys into space. Lizzie Pickering – Author Signing and Talkīased on the New York Times bestselling book and the Academy Award-nominated movie, author Margot Lee Shetterly and Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Award winner Laura Freeman bring the incredibly inspiring true story of four black women who helped NASA launch men into space to picture book readers!ĭorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math… really good.A Year in Books – Reading Subscriptions. Reading Together – Books for Book Clubs. 5/30/2023 0 Comments Salvage the bones“That she looked at him and felt a fire eating up through her rib cage, turning her blood to boil, evaporating hotly out of every inch of her skin. “I imagine this is the way Medea felt about Jason when she fell in love,” she thinks. It’s told by a teenage girl, Esch, whose late-summer thoughts turn to Greek myths and her neglectful lover, Manny. “Salvage the Bones” is an intense book, with powerful, direct prose that dips into poetic metaphor. The result, this year, was that an under-the-radar second novel rose to the top of the pack. In the case of the National Book Awards, five judges read 315 fiction submissions in a small window of time and choose their favorite. While major film and music awards are based on the votes of a large group - meaning there is a general consensus or popularity - book awards are frequently selected by just a few people. Now, however, this novel about a poor Mississippi family in the weeks leading up to 2005’s Hurricane Katrina has a prominent place in bookstores and boasts the gold medallion that comes with winning the 2011 National Book Award.īook awards are marvelously idiosyncratic. If it had not caught the attention of a handful of important readers, Jesmyn Ward’s “Salvage the Bones” would most likely have quietly faded into obscurity many worthy books do. Mallory is a great character, someone who can admit her past wrongs, try to do better, and still make dumb mistakes. The Big Twist is a seriously major one that’s not only played perfectly, but also entirely plausible. Mallory begins to feel as though she’s being watched.ĭuckies, this book is a marvelous mix of horror, mystery, addiction memoir, and juuuuuust enough romance. Teddy’s drawings become stranger and more disturbing, and far too skillfully done for a child his age. The gig seems almost too good to be true – Teddy is a quiet, obedient kid, who likes playing make-believe and drawing pictures, there’s a hot neighbor guy, and the house even has a pool.īut we all know what they say about things that are too good to be true, right? In Hidden Pictures, recovering addict Mallory takes a summer job as a babysitter to five year old Teddy. Now, onto what I’ve been reading, and duckies, it’s a doozy! Everyone should feel what they feel, and be supported for that, so keep an eye on your loved (or even barely liked) ones who may be struggling with the day. Hello my beloved nerdlings, and Happy Mothers Day! I’d like to throw in a quick PSA from Auntie Nerdy before we get into today’s review: today is a wonderful day for some, a terrible day for others, and a lot of Big Feelings are normal. (*I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Alan moore the dark knightMoore predicted that “if it had been a bunch of young, sociopathic vigilantes with Batman makeup on their faces, be more in favour of it”. Moore described the worldwide anti-capitalism protests as “a completely justified howl of moral outrage” and said they had been “handled in a very intelligent, nonviolent way, which is probably another reason why Frank Miller would be less than pleased with it”. Moore spoke after Miller launched an attack on the Occupy movement, describing it as “nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness” on his blog last month.Īsked by British independent publisher Honest Publishing for his thoughts, Moore said that he and Miller “have diametrically opposing views upon all sorts of things, but certainly upon the Occupy movement”. 5/29/2023 0 Comments Savage Season by Joe R. LansdaleIt sort of built momentum toward 1989, which is when Cold in July came out.įor many of us, our introduction to your work probably came via the story “On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks” from the seminal anthology The Book of the Dead. And then “Tight Little Stitches” came out and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, so that was a big year. At the same time, Dead in the West came out, so I also had the small press thing going on. I feel like 1986 was a big turning point for me, because The Magic Wagon came out that year from Doubleday and got reviewed in the New York Times, so it kind of got that train going. You were a full-time writer by 1981, and about 1989 was when your work suddenly seemed to be everywhere. Lansdale’s novel Cold in July has also recently been adapted into a movie starring Michael C. His most recent works include the novel The Thicket (which critics have compared to some of Mark Twain’s books), and the feature film Christmas With the Dead, which Lansdale’s son Keith adapted from Joe’s short story of the same name (Lansdale also served as producer on the film). He’s written award-winning horror, mystery, suspense, westerns, graphic novels and comics, media tie-ins, screenplays, and mainstream literature, yet each new work fits recognizably into the East Texas-slang-filled, fast-paced, fluid storytelling style that defines the Joe R. Few writers can authentically claim to be their own distinct genre, but there’s no question that Joe R. |