Buddhism and violence : militarism and Buddhism in modern Asia / / edited by Vladimir Tikhonov and Torkel Brekke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462446503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-60614-3; 9786613918598; 1-136-27708-0; 0-203-11102-8
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in religion ; ; 19
• Altri autori (Persone): BrekkeTorkel; TikhonovVladimir
• Disciplina: 294.3/37273; 294.337; 294.337273
• Soggetti: Violence - Asia - Religious aspects - Buddhism; Militarism - Asia - Religious aspects - Buddhism; Militarism - Asia - History - 20th century; Militarism - Asia - History - 21st century; Electronic books.
• 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: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Introduction: Dialectics of Violence and Non-Violence-Buddhism and Other Religions; PART I Nationalism and Militarism in Modern Asian Buddhisms; 1 Sinhala Ethno-nationalisms and Militarization in Sri Lanka; 2 Military Temples and Saffron-Robed Soldiers: Legitimacy and the Securing of Buddhism in Southern Thailand; 3 Reconsidering the Historiography of Modern Korean Buddhism: Nationalism and Identity of the Chogye Order of Korean Buddhism; PART II Militarism and the Buddhist Monks; 4 A Path to Militant Buddhism: Thai Buddhist Monks as Representations5 Canonical Ambiguity and Differential Practices: Buddhism and Militarism in Contemporary Sri Lanka; 6 The Monks and ; the Hmong: The Special Relationship between the Chao Fa and the Tham Krabok Buddhist Temple in Saraburi Province, Thailand; 7 A Closer Look at Zen at War: The Battlefield Chaplaincy of Shaku Sōen in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905); PART III Buddhist Justifications for Peace and Militarism; 8 Question of Violence in Thai Buddhism; 9 Buddhism and the Justification of War with Focus on Chinese Buddhist History; 10 Anti-War and Peace Movements among Japanese Buddhists after the Second World War11 Violent Buddhism-Korean Buddhists and the Pacific War, 1937-1945; Conclusion; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a 'peaceful' religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western standards of 'peaceful' behavior. This stereotype - which may well be termed 'positive Orientalism,' since it is based on assumption that an 'Oriental' religion would be more faithful to its original non-violent teachings than Western Christianity - has been periodically challenged by enthusiastic ac

Analysis at large : dedicated to the life and work of Jean Bourgain / / edited by Artur Avila, Michael Th. Rassias, Yakov Sinai

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910629291503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 3-031-05331-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 pages)
• Disciplina: 780
• Soggetti: Mathematicians; Anàlisi matemàtica; Teoria de grups; Matemàtics; Biografies; Llibres electrònics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- On the Joint Spectral Radius -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Extremal Norms and Barabanov Norms -- 3 Explicit Bounds for Theorem 2 -- 4 Explicit Bounds for Bochi's Inequalities -- 5 Ultrametric Complete Valued Fields -- References -- The Failure of the Fractal Uncertainty Principle for the Walsh-Fourier Transform -- 1 The Fractal Uncertainty Principle for the Fourier Transform -- 2 The Walsh Transform -- 3 The Main Result -- 4 Proofs -- References -- The Continuous Formulation of Shallow Neural Networks as Wasserstein-Type Gradient Flows -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Shallow Neural Network and Gradient Flows -- 2.1 The μ Formulation -- 2.2 Comparison Between the Continuous and Discrete Model -- Consistency -- 2.3 The (ρ, H) Formulation -- 3 PDE Formulations -- 3.1 Gradient Flow in the μ Formulation -- 3.2 A First PDE Approach in the (ρ, H) Formulation -- Separating Variables -- Transporting Along the Flow of ρt -- 3.3 A Gradient Flow in the (ρ, H) Formulation via Propagation of Chaos -- 4 Regularized Problems -- 4.1 Heat Regularization -- 4.2 The Porous Medium Regularization -- 4.3 An Observation Without Regularization ; -- 5 Open Questions -- 5.1 Regularity and Convergence -- 5.2 Multilayer Neural Networks -- References -- On the Origins, Nature, and Impact of Bourgain's Discretized Sum-Product Theorem -- 1 Overture -- 2 Origins: Kakeya-Besicovitch Problem+ -- 2.1 Some Fundamental Properties of Plane Sets of Fractional Dimension -- 2.2 Besicovitch Type Maximal Operators and Applications to Fourier Analysis -- 2.3 Balog-Szemerédi-Gowers Lemma -- 2.4 On the Dimension of Kakeya Sets and Related Maximal Inequalities -- 3 Sum-Product Phenomena and the Labyrinth of the Continuum -- 3.1 Freiman's Theorem and Ruzsa's Calculus -- 3.2 Sum-Product Phenomena and Incidence Geometry -- Crossing Number Inequality -- Szemerédi-Trotter Theorem.; Proof of Sum-Product Inequality -- 3.3 On the Erdös-Volkmann and Katz-Tao Discretized Ring Conjectures -- Erdös-Volkmann Problem -- Katz-Tao Discretized Ring Conjecture -- Labyrinth of the Continuum -- 3.4 A Sum-Product Estimate in Finite Fields and Applications -- 4 Discrete and Continuous Variations on the Expanding Theme -- 4.1 Bemerkung über den Inhalt von Punktmengen -- 4.2 Sur le problème de la mesure -- 4.3 Ramanujan-Selberg Conjecture -- 4.4 Expanders -- 4.5 Superstrong Approximation -- 4.6 On the Spectral Gap for Finitely Generated Subgroups of SU(d) -- 5 Coda -- References -- Cartan Covers and Doubling Bernstein-Type Inequalities on Analytic Subsets of C2 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cartan's Estimate -- 3 Bernstein Exponent and Number of Zeros -- 4 Weierstrass' Preparation Theorem and Bernstein Exponents -- 5 Resultants -- 6 Refinement of the Assumption (1) -- 7 Proofs of Theorems A, B, and C -- References -- A Weighted Prékopa-Leindler Inequality and Sumsets withQuasicubes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Weighted Discrete Prékopa-Leindler Inequality -- 3 Proof of the Main Theorem -- References -- Equidistribution of Affine Random Walks on Some Nilmanifolds -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Quantitative Equidistribution -- 1.2 Statement of the Main Result -- 1.3 The Case of a Torus -- 1.4 Consequences of the Main Theorem -- 1.5 Idea of the Proof -- 2 Examples -- 2.1 Heisenberg Nilmanifold -- 2.2 Heisenberg Nilmanifold over Number Fields -- 2.3 A Non-semisimple Group of Toral Automorphisms -- 2.4 A Non-example -- 3 The Setup -- 3.1 Hölder Functions -- 4 The Main Argument -- 4.1 Principal Torus Bundle -- 4.2 Fourier Transform -- 4.3 Essential Growth Rate -- 4.4 The Cauchy-Schwarz Argument -- 4.5 Proof of the Key Proposition -- 5 Proof of the Main Theorems -- Appendix A: A Large Deviation Estimate -- Appendix B: The Case of a Torus.; B.1 Multiplicative Convolutions in Simple Algebras -- B.2 Fourier Decay for Linear Random Walks -- B.3 Proof of Theorems B.1 and B.2 -- References -- Logarithmic Quantum Dynamical Bounds for Arithmetically Defined Ergodic Schrödinger Operators with Smooth Potentials -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminaries -- 2.1 Schrödinger Operators and Transfer Matrices -- 2.2 Transport Exponents -- 2.3 Semialgebraic Sets -- 2.4 Large Deviation Theorems -- 3 Transport Exponents -- 4 Semialgebraic Sets -- 5 Technical Lemmas -- 6 The Case ν= 1 -- 7 The Case ν&gt -- 1 -- 8 The Analytic Case -- 9 The Skew-Shift Case, ν&gt -- 1 -- References -- The Slicing Problem by Bourgain -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Isotropic Position -- 3 Distribution of Volume in Convex Bodies -- 4 Bound for the Isotropic Constant -- References -- On the Work of Jean Bourgain in Nonlinear Dispersive Equations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Nonlinear Dispersive Equations: The Well-Posedness Theory Before Bourgain -- 3 Bourgain's Transformative Work on the Well-Posedness Theory of Dispersive Equations -- 4 A Quick Sampling of Some of the Other Groundbreaking Contributions of Bourgain to Nonlinear Dispersive Equations -- 4.1 Gibbs Measure ; Associated to Periodic (NLS) -- 4.2 Bourgain's ``High-Low Decomposition'' -- 4.3 Bourgain's Work on the Defocusing Energy Critical (NLS) -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- On Trace Sets of Restricted Continued Fraction Semigroups -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 McMullen's Arithmetic Chaos Conjecture -- 1.2 Thin Semigroups -- 1.3 The Local-Global and Positive Density Conjectures -- 1.4 Statements of the Main Theorems -- 1.5 Notation -- 2 Preliminary Remarks -- 3 Proof of Theorem 1.5 -- 4 Proof of Theorem 1.6 -- 5 Proof of Lemma 1.9 -- References -- Polynomial Equations in Subgroups and Applications -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background and Motivation -- 1.2 New Results.; 2 Solutions to Polynomial Equations in Subgroups of Finite Fields -- 2.1 Stepanov's Method -- 2.2 Some Divisibilities and Non-divisibilities -- 2.3 Derivatives on Some Curves -- 2.4 Multiplicity Points on Some Curves -- 3 Small Divisors of Integers -- 3.1 Smooth Numbers -- 3.2 Number of Small Divisors of Integers -- 4 Proof of Theorem 1.2 -- 4.1 Preliminary Estimates -- 4.2 Optimization of Parameters -- 5 Proof of Theorem 1.6 -- 5.1 Outline of the Proof -- 5.2 Formal Argument -- 6 Comments -- References -- Exponential Sums, Twisted Multiplicativity, and Moments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Exponential Sums with Polynomials -- 1.2 Sums of Twisted Multiplicative Functions -- 1.3 Non-correlation of Exponential Sums for Different Polynomials -- 1.4 Previous Work -- 2 Sums of Twisted Multiplicative Functions -- 3 Exponential Sums of Polynomials: Preliminary Results -- 4 Proof of Theorem 1.1 -- 5 The Fourth Moment: Proof of Theorem 1.3 -- 6 Generic Polynomials -- 7 Multiple Correlations -- 8 Remarks on Katz's Theorem -- References -- The Ternary Goldbach Problem with a Missing Digit and Other Primes of Special Types -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Outline of the Proof -- 3 Structure of the Paper -- 4 Sieve Decomposition and Proof of Theorem 1.1 -- 5 Fourier Estimates and Large Sieve Inequalities -- 6 Local Versions of Maynard's Results -- 7 Sieve Asymptotics for Local Version of Maynard -- 8 b-Variable Circle Method -- 9 b-Variable Major Arcs -- 10 Generic Minor Arcs -- 11 Exceptional Minor Arcs -- 12 The Ternary Goldbach Problem with a Prime with a Missing Digit, a Piatetski-Shapiro Prime, and a Prime of Another Special Type -- References -- A Note on Harmonious Sets -- 1 A Wrong Lemma Is Revisited -- 2 Bogolyobov's Approach -- 3 New Examples of Harmonious Sets -- 4 The Union of Two Harmonious Sets -- References.; On the Multiplicative Group Generated by Two Primes in Z/QZ -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Notation -- 2 Proof of Theorem 4 -- References.

The New Politics of Numbers : Utopia, Evidence and Democracy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910503007403321
• Autore: Mennicken Andrea
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021
• ISBN: 3-030-78201-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (514 p.)
• Collana: Executive Politics and Governance
• Altri autori (Persone): SalaisRobert
• Disciplina: 320.0723; 320.01513
• Soggetti: Political structure & processes; Public administration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword: What Numbers Do -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 The New Politics of Numbers: An Introduction -- Quantification as Utopia -- The Politics of Evidence -- Voicing for Democracy -- Quantification: Where the Economics of Convention Approach Meets Foucault -- References -- Part I Quantification as Utopia -- 2 Creating a Socialist Society and Quantification in the USSR -- Inventing a New Form of Statistics for a New Model of Society -- A New State Statistics Administration; A Complicated Demarcation Between Accounting and Statistics -- A Task of Theoretical Deconstruction -- Debates and Tensions Surrounding Statistical Theory -- Tension Surrounding the Mean and the Law of Large Numbers -- Tensions Around the Shift to the Random Model -- What Form of Statistics for Constructing a New Order? -- The Relationship Between Statistics and Accounting -- Categorization of the Population and Censuses -- Confidence in the Data and the Status of the Statistician -- What Statistical Tools for a New Order? -- Conclusion -- References; 3 The People's Algorithms: Social Credits and the Rise of China's Big (Br)other -- The Earlier Chinese Dream -- Personal Dossiers -- Social Credit -- The Total Information System -- The Future Now -- Bigger Than Big Other -- References -- 4 Accounting for Who We Are and Could Be: Inventing Taxonomies of the Self in an Age ; of Uncertainty -- Corporeal Accounting Within Immaterial Capitalism -- Calculation and the Living Body -- The Quantified Self -- Well-Being, Performance and Emotions as Core Issues of Leibschreiben (Writing the Body) -- The Emerging Taxonomies of the Self; Inventing Representational Forms -- Moral Conflicts in Quantifying the Self -- Quantifying Performance: Alternative Measures, Rational Planning and the Deficiency of Corporeal Sensations -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Quantifying Inequality: From Contentious Politics to the Dream of an Indifferent Power -- Words: The Semantics of Poverty and the Syntax of the Threshold -- Shifting Words -- Moralization -- The Threshold -- Visibility and Obfuscation -- Spatial Choreographies: From Inequality to Distance -- Numbers: Measuring Inequality -- Conclusions: The Dream of an Indifferent Power; References -- Part II The Politics of Evidence -- 6 Homo Statisticus: A History of France's General Public Statistical Infrastructure on Population Since 1950 -- The Representative Household Survey -- The Biographical Investigation -- The Matched Panels -- Homo Statisticus: Three Types of Being Constructed by the Statistical Infrastructure -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 A New Calculable Global World in the Making: Governing Through Transnational Certification Standards -- Introduction: The Evolving Politics of Calculable Worlds; From State Statistics to Government Through Standards: A Research Programme on the Politics of Conventional Forms and Engagements
• Sommario/riassunto: This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and democracy, the politics of evidence, and dreams and schemes of bettering society. The book engages Foucault inspired studies of quantification and the economics of convention in a critical dialogue. In so doing, it provides a rich account of the plurality of possible ways in which numbers have come to govern, highlighting not only their disciplinary effects, but also the collective mobilization capacities quantification can offer. This book will be invaluable reading for academics and graduate students in a wide variety of disciplines, as well as policymakers interested in the opportunities and pitfalls of governance by numbers.