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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437647303321

Autore

Michel Cécile

Titolo

Fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China / / edited by: Cécile Michel and Michael Friedrich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter, 2020

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-11-071433-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 338 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in manuscript cultures ; ; 20

Disciplina

089.3

Soggetti

Forgery of manuscripts

Forgery of antiquities

Literary forgeries and mystifications

LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts: An Introduction -- Part I: From Copies to Forgeries -- Cuneiform Fakes: A Long History from Antiquity to the Present Day -- How Writing Came about in Glozel, France -- Venerable Copies: The Afterlife of a Fragment of a Letter by Wang Xizhi (303–361) -- Fakes and Islamic Manuscripts -- Part II: Forgers and Their Motives -- Fake Ancient Roman Inscriptions and the Case of Wolfgang Lazius (1514–1565) -- Michel Fourmont and His Forgeries -- Sicilian Sweets. The Fanciful Frauds of Wily Father Vella -- Et tout le reste est littérature, or: Abraham Firkowicz, the Writer with a Chisel -- Supplement: The Forgery of Colophons and Ownership of Hebrew Codices and Scrolls by Abraham Firkowicz -- Part III: Identifying Fakes -- La invención del Sacromonte: How and Why Scholars Debated about the Lead Books of Granada for Two Hundred Years -- Identifying Fakes: Three Case Studies with Examples from Different Types of Written Artefacts -- Detection of Fakes: The Merits and Limits of Non-Invasive Materials Analysis -- Producing and Identifying Forgeries of Chinese Manuscripts -- Contributors



Sommario/riassunto

Fakes and forgeries are objects of fascination. This volume contains a series of thirteen articles devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from the beginnings of writing in Mesopotamia to modern China. The studies emphasise the subtle distinctions conveyed by an established vocabulary relating to the reproduction of ancient artefacts and production of artefacts claiming to be ancient: from copies, replicas and imitations to fakes and forgeries. Fakes are often a response to a demand from the public or scholarly milieu, or even both. The motives behind their production may be economic, political, religious or personal – aspiring to fame or simply playing a joke. Fakes may be revealed by combining the study of their contents, codicological, epigraphic and palaeographic analyses, and scientific investigations. However, certain famous unsolved cases still continue to defy technology today, no matter how advanced it is. Nowadays, one can find fakes in museums and private collections alike; they abound on the antique market, mixed with real artefacts that have often been looted. The scientific community’s attitude to such objects calls for ethical reflection.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910698648803321

Autore

Kashaev Rinat

Titolo

A Course on Hopf Algebras / / by Rinat Kashaev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9783031263064

9783031263057

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 pages)

Collana

Universitext, , 2191-6675

Disciplina

512.55

Soggetti

Associative rings

Associative algebras

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Algebras, Linear

Topological groups

Lie groups

Mathematical physics

Algebra, Homological

Associative Rings and Algebras

Manifolds and Cell Complexes

Linear Algebra

Topological Groups and Lie Groups



Mathematical Physics

Category Theory, Homological Algebra

Àlgebres de Hopf

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This textbook provides a concise, visual introduction to Hopf algebras and their application to knot theory, most notably the construction of solutions of the Yang–Baxter equations. Starting with a reformulation of the definition of a group in terms of structural maps as motivation for the definition of a Hopf algebra, the book introduces the related algebraic notions: algebras, coalgebras, bialgebras, convolution algebras, modules, comodules. Next, Drinfel’d’s quantum double construction is achieved through the important notion of the restricted (or finite) dual of a Hopf algebra, which allows one to work purely algebraically, without completions. As a result, in applications to knot theory, to any Hopf algebra with invertible antipode one can associate a universal invariant of long knots. These constructions are elucidated in detailed analyses of a few examples of Hopf algebras. The presentation of the material is mostly based on multilinear algebra, with all definitions carefully formulated and proofs self-contained. The general theory is illustrated with concrete examples, and many technicalities are handled with the help of visual aids, namely string diagrams. As a result, most of this text is accessible with minimal prerequisites and can serve as the basis of introductory courses to beginning graduate students.