Tag: American Mathematical Society

• Patenting reality

  (I was about to post something about this when I noticed the Stephen Fry nomination of Turing’s Universal Machine as a great British “innovation” and decided to write about that first … but the two dovetail as I hope you can see.) I was alerted to this by an article in the latest edition of…

  Adrian McMenamin

  March 17, 2013

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  American Mathematical Society, David Edwards, General relativity, New Scientist, Patent, Physics, Quantum mechanics, Stephen Ornes, University of Georgia

• Computer scientists’ lousy citation style

  I am reading this book: Soft Real-Time Systems: Predictability vs. Efficiency, and I am struck, once again, by the truly lousy style of publication reference that seem to be preferred by so many computer scientists, The style used in the book appears to be that favoured by the American Mathematical Society – the so-called “authorship…

  Adrian McMenamin

  February 25, 2012

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  ACM, American Mathematical Society, Bibliography, Chicago citation style, Citation, citation format, citation system, computer science, computer scientists, literature reviews, Operating system, Real-time computing, Real-Time Systems

• More on Hilbert’s tenth problem

  One of the best things about WordPress.com is that it gives me, as a blog author, the opportunity to link in other relevant stories and so it was with my last post on diaphantine sets and the integers. The top linked item there gives a lot more on David Hilbert‘s “tenth problem” – which was…

  Adrian McMenamin

  September 20, 2011

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  American Mathematical Society, Constance Reid, David Hilbert, Diophantine equation, Hilbert’s fifth problem, Hilbert’s problems, Julia Robinson