1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812642503321

Autore

Schmidgen Henning

Titolo

The Helmholtz curves : tracing lost time / / Henning Schmidgen ; translated by Nils F. Schott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8232-6195-6

0-8232-6646-X

0-8232-6197-2

0-8232-6198-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Forms of Living

Disciplina

612.8

Soggetti

Neurobiology - History

Neurobiology - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Curves Regained -- 2. Semiotic Things -- 3. A Research Machine -- 4. Networks of Time, Networks of Knowledge -- 5. Time to Publish -- 6. Messages from the Big Toe -- 7. The Return of the Line -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book reconstructs the emergence of the phenomenon of “lost time” by engaging with two of the most significant time experts of the nineteenth century: the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz and the French writer Marcel Proust. Its starting point is the archival discovery of curve images that Helmholtz produced in the context of pathbreaking experiments on the temporality of the nervous system in 1851. With a “frog drawing machine,” Helmholtz established the temporal gap between stimulus and response that has remained a core issue in debates between neuroscientists and philosophers. When naming the recorded phenomena, Helmholtz introduced the term temps perdu, or lost time. Proust had excellent contacts with the biomedical world of late-nineteenth-century Paris, and he was familiar with this term and physiological tracing technologies behind it.



Drawing on the machine philosophy of Deleuze, Schmidgen highlights the resemblance between the machinic assemblages and rhizomatic networks within which Helmholtz and Proust pursued their respective projects.

2.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIAVAN0053460

Autore

Briggs, William L.

Titolo

A multigrid tutorial / W. L. Briggs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1987

ISBN

08-987122-1-1

Descrizione fisica

IX, 88 p. ; 21 cm

Soggetti

65-XX - Numerical analysis [MSC 2020]

65F10 - Iterative numerical methods for linear systems [MSC 2020]

65N22 - Numerical solution of discretized equations for boundary value problems involving PDEs [MSC 2020]

35J05 - Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation [MSC 2020]

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia