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An Ink–and–Paper Automaton: The Conceptual Mechanization of Cognition and the Practical Automation of Reasoning in Leibniz’s De Affectibus (1679)

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On the boundedness of n-folds with κ(X) = n - 1

Stefano Filipazzi

In this note, we study certain sufficient conditions for a set of minimal klt pairs ( X, triangle) with kappa ( X, triangle) = dim( X ) - 1 to be bounded. ...

European Mathematical Soc-Ems2024

The irreducibility of vision: Gestalt, crowding and the fundamentals of vision

Michael Herzog

What is fundamental in vision has been discussed for millennia. For philosophical realists and the physiological approach to vision, the objects of the outer world are truly given, and failures to perceive objects properly, such as in illusions, are just s ...

2022

Leibniz en Créateur. Un regard matériel sur sa machine à calculer

Simon François Dumas Primbault

Between 1671 and 1716, the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz attempted to design a reckoning machine. Working closely with the Parisian clockmaker Monsieur Ollivier, Leibniz eventually failed at producing a working prototype. After the redisco ...

2022

Whilst digital education is becoming a reality for schools there isa role for CCI research to move beyond researcher-led school en-gagements to other types of research that support schools and theirsta to lead on the appropriation of digital technologies. ...

2022

What are the barriers on the way to zero-emissions personal mobility (ZEM)? Based on the world cafe discussion with experts from the ETH domain, two main sets of barriers arise: a first set related to the difficulties of organising ZEM, a second set relate ...

2020

Between 1672 and 1694, the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) attempted to design a reckoning machine that would be able to perform the four basic arithmetic operations on multiple-digit numbers. Working closely with the French cloc ...

2020

Cross-sections of line configurations in R-3 and (d-2)-flat configurations in R-d

Andres Jacinto Ruiz Vargas

We consider sets L = {l(1),..., l(n)} of n labeled lines in general position in R-3, and study the order types of point sets {p(1),..., p(n)} that stem from the intersections of the lines in L with (directed) planes Pi, not parallel to any line of L, that ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Bretherton's buoyant bubble

John Martin Kolinski, Wassim Dhaouadi

When a buoyant bubble is inserted into a closed capillary that is slightly smaller than the capillary length, it appears stuck; exactly why this is so is a puzzle that has remained unanswered over the past 50 years. Recent calculations suggest that the bub ...

2019

EPFL Library Research Data Management Fastguides

Francesco Varrato, Antoine Louis Claude Masson, Eliane Ninfa Blumer, Sitthida Samath, Fantin Reichler, Jérôme Julien Chaptinel

This is a set of 11 1-sheet guides, providing abridged notions, advice and references for quick and practical research data management: #01 Research Data: the basics #02 FAIR Data Principles #03 Cost of Research Data Management #04 File Formats #05 Metadat ...

2019

Shops as the bricks and mortar of place identity

Maxime Carl Felder

“Think of a city and what comes to mind?” asks Jane Jacobs (1961: 29). “Its streets. If a city’s streets look interesting, the city looks interesting; if they look dull, the city looks dull.” In our opinion, Jacobs should have answered: its commercial stre ...

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