Mathematical communities in the reconstruction after the Great War 1918-1928 : trajectories and institutions / / Laurent Mazliak, Rossana Tazzioli, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483869103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Birkhäuser, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 3-030-61683-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 363 pages) : illustrations
• Collana: Trends in the history of science
• Disciplina: 510.94
• Soggetti: Reconstruction (1914-1939) - Europe; Mathematics - Europe - History; Reconstrucció, 1914-1939; Història de la matemàtica; Llibres electrònics; Europa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Introduction -- The Roaring Mathematical Twenties 1918-1928 -- References -- Contents -- William Henry Young, an Unconventional President of the International Mathematical Union -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Troubled Existence of the International Mathematical Union -- 2.1 The Difficult Situation in Which Science Found Itself in the Aftermath of the Great War -- 2.2 Early Resistance to the Exclusion Policy -- 2.3 The International Mathematical Union: A Subordinate Institution -- 2.4 Further International Congresses in the 1920s -- 3 William Henry Young -- 3.1 William Henry Young: The Person -- 3.2 William Henry Young: The Mathematician -- 4 Young's Presidency of the International Mathematical Union -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- The Unione Matematica Italiana and Its Bollettino, 1922-1928. National and International Aspects -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Foundation of the UMI in the International Context -- 3 What Were the UMI and BUMI Modeled After? -- 4 The UMI on the International Scene: The 1924 ICM in Toronto -- 5 The ; International Congress of Mathematicians, Bologna 1928 -- 6 UMI's Change in Attitude Towards Fascism -- 7 Conclusions -- Archival Sources -- References -- L'Enseignement Mathématique and Its Internationalist Ambitions During the Turmoil of WWI and the 1920s -- 1 Introduction -- 2 International Configuration of the Pre-war Mathematical World as Depicted in L'Enseignement Mathématique -- 2.1 Laisant and Fehr: Building an Internationale of Mathematical Educators -- 2.2 The CIEM as Presented in the EM's Chronique Section-A Geographical Representation of the Educational Mathematical World? -- 3 Internationalist Editorial Practices in EM During and in the Immediate Aftermath of the War -- 3.1 EM Covers: Not in Step with the Times? -- 3.2 Maintaining the Journal's Ambition and Bibliographical Bulletin During the War.; 3.3 Maintaining a Chronique Dedicated to the CIEM, or How Directing the (Possibly Virtual) Activity of an International Scientific Organization -- 4 EM's Path in the World of the 1920s -- 4.1 Internationalism in the Mathematical Editorial World of the 1920s, Practical Difficulties and the New Geopolitical Situation -- 4.2 EM and the CIEM: The New Position of International Institutions -- 5 Conclusion -- Archival Sources -- Mathematics and Logic in Polish Encyclopedias Published During the Interwar Period -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Background -- 3 Encyclopedias Published in Interwar Poland -- 4 Mathematics and Logic in Ilustrowana Encyklopedia Trzaski, Everta i Michalskiego -- 5 Mathematics and Logic in the Encyklopedia Powszechna Ultima Thule -- 6 Mathematics and Logic in Wielka Ilustrowana Encyklopedja Powszechna "Gutenberga" -- 7 Mathematics and Logic in Świat i Życie: Zarys Encyklopedyczny Współczesnej Wiedzy i Kultury -- 8 Mathematics and Logic in Poradnik Dla Samouków -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- From the War Against Errors to Mathematics After the War: Public Discourses on a New Mathematical Dictionary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mathematical Dictionaries Before the War -- 2.1 Miller and the Context of the MAA -- 2.2 American Dictionaries and European Innovations -- 2.3 A ``Protest Against Such A Butchery of Their Subject'' -- 2.4 Miller on the Needs of Fledgling American Mathematicians -- 3 During the War: Solidifying Content and Intent -- 3.1 Mathematics as the Tower of Babel -- 3.2 Making Higher Mathematics Accessible -- 3.3 Showcasing Scholarship and Testing Leadership -- 4 Aftermath -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- International Geodesy in the Post-war Period, as Seen by the French Bureau des Longitudes (1917-1922) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 International Geodesy Confederations, a Short History.; 3 Echo of International Geodetic Works Inside the Bureau des Longitudes -- 4 The French Geodetic Commission -- 5 Proposals of a New Post-war Geodetic Grouping (1918-1919) -- 6 Toward the Constitution of an International Union in Geodesy (1920-1921) -- 7 The Congress of Rome (1922) -- 8 Conclusion -- Archival Sources -- "The First Mathematically Serious German School of Applied Mathematics"? -- 1 Introduction, in Particular Ostrowski's View of the Von Mises School -- 2 The Prehistory of the Rise of Applied Mathematics in Berlin -- 3 The First Beginnings of the Institute and Von Mises' Struggle for Its Consolidation During the 1920s -- 4 The Fight Between University- and TH-Mathematicians in Berlin Over the Exam for Applied Mathematics and Controversies Between Hamel and Von Mises -- 5 Conclusions -- Appendix -- References -- The Mathematics of Nonlinear Oscillations in the 1920s: A Decade of Trials and Convergence? Examples of the Work of Nicolai Minorsky -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Work of Nicolai Minorsky Until 1923 -- 2.1 Who Is Minorsky? -- 2.2 Minorsky and the Stability of Ships -- 2.3 1923: ; Trial Runs on the USS New Mexico -- 3 Looking for Theories of Nonlinear Oscillations in the 1920s -- 3.1 The Linear Oscillations Paradigm Until 1918 -- 3.2 A Decade of Trials and Analogy? -- 3.3 From Poincaré to Andronov: New Theories from the USSR -- 3.4 A Growing Community? -- 4 Minorsky and the Mathematics of Nonlinear Oscillations -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- From Fundamenta Mathematicae to Studia Mathematica: The Renaissance of Polish mathematics in light of Banach's publications 1919-1940 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fundamenta Mathematicae (est. 1920) -- 2.1 Birth of a Mathematical Journal -- 2.2 Banach's Contributions to Fundamenta Mathematicae -- 3 Studia Mathematica (est. 1929) -- 3.1 A Journal Dedicated to Functional Analysis.; 3.2 Banach's Contributions to Studia Mathematica -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 Appendix -- References -- Following Béla von Kerékjártó. The Journeys of a Hungarian Mathematician in the Post-war World -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Beginning of Béla von Kerékjártó's Career in Hungary -- 2.1 Hungary in the Austro-hungarian Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century and After the Great War -- 2.2 A Young Mathematician in a Shaken Hungary -- 2.3 The Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Budapest -- 2.4 The University Ferenc József of Szeged -- 3 Béla von Kerékjártó's Time as a Privat Docent at Göttingen: Writing Vorlesungen Über Topologie -- 3.1 Topology Discoveries at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- 3.2 Vorlesungen über Topologie -- 4 Contacting Fréchet at a Turn of His Career: Kerékjártó's Doorway to ``The Other Side'' -- 4.1 Maurice Fréchet in Strasbourg in the Aftermath of the Great War -- 4.2 Kerékjártó's Strategic Letters -- 4.3 The Letter from 8 December 1923 -- 4.4 How Is the Theory of Abstract Spaces Perceived in the Exchanges -- 5 Conclusion -- 6 Appendix : Béla von Kerékjártó's Letter to Maurice Fréchet, 8 December 1923 -- References -- Under the Protection of Alien Wings. Russian Emigrant Mathematiciancs in Interwar France: A General Picture and Two Case Studies of Ervand Kogbetliantz and Vladimir Kosticyn -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Mathematical Road to Exile -- 2.1 To leave or to stay? A shaky timeline and rare departures -- 2.2 Professional socializing academic networks and mathematics -- 2.3 A typology of Russian mathematicians in exile in Paris -- 3 Ervand Kogbetliantz: The Randomness of a Walk -- 3.1 Early years -- 3.2 In the midst of the turmoil -- 3.3 The beginning of a French career -- 4 Vladimir Kosticyn: The Sorrow of Departure -- 4.1 A product of the Moscow school -- 4.2 On the Soviet stage -- 4.3 The Road to Calvary -- 5 Conclusion.; French Archival sources -- Index.

Ten lectures on corpus linguistics with R : applications for usage-based and psycholinguistic research / / by Stefan Th. Gries

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793822103321
• Autore: Gries Stefan Thomas <1970->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2020]; ©2020
• ISBN: 90-04-41034-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics ; ; Volume 23
• Disciplina: 410.1/88
• Soggetti: 17.30; 17.46; Corpora (Linguistics); R (Computer program language)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Note on Supplementary Material -- Preface by the Series Editor -- Preface by the Author -- About the Author -- 1 Corpus Linguistics: the (Methods of the) Field and Its Relation to Cognitive Linguistics -- 2 On—and/or against—Frequencies -- 3 Frequency: Practice with R -- 4 On Recency and Dispersion -- 5 Dispersion: Practice with R -- 6 On Association -- 7 Association: Practice with R -- 8 On Context -- 9 Concordance, Surprisal, Entropy: Practice with R -- 10 Corpus-Linguistic Applications in Cognitive/Usage-Based Explorations of Learner Language -- References -- About the Series Editor -- Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview on how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions. Topics include the corpus linguistics in general, its most important methodological tools, its statistical nature, and the relation of all these topics to past and current usage-based theorizing. Central notions discussed in detail include frequency, dispersion, context, and others in a variety of applications and case studies; four practice sessions offer short introductions of how to compute various corpus statistics with the open ; source programming language and environment R.