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Pascal au pays du matin calme
No full textAprès le Japon, la Corée à son tour jouit d’une certaine florescence dans les études pascaliennes. Celles-ci sont largement dues à la qualité des travaux et de l’enseignement de celui qui en reste le doyen, à savoir M. Lee Whan. Le premier à avoir, en 1974, consacré une thèse de doctorat sur Pascal, il s’intéresse tout particulièrement à la première partie de l’Apologie communément appelée l’anthropologie de Pascal. Dans son livre majeur Recherches sur Pascal qui constitue un recueil d’articl..
Samuel Beckett and the Writers of Port-Royal
No full textIt has been observed that ‘the literary influences on Beckett have been far more important than has been acknowledged, and more important indeed, than the philosophical influences’ (Smith 2002: 3). The truth of this statement is evidenced by the description that scholars have given of Samuel Beckett’s relationship to seventeenth century French classicism. To date, critical interest has been limited for the most part to the figure of the philosopher René Descartes on the (fragile) grounds that Beckett was exclusively concerned with the Cartesian imperative of clarity and order, the fundamental dualism between body and mind, and Nominalism.
Together with the assumption that Beckett’s vision was essentially Cartesian, his literary filiation with Pascal was suggested by critics, but only in terms of Beckett’s formal approach to the theatre. In his short article on En attendant Godot in 1953, the playwright Jean Anouilh was among the first reviewers to suggest that Beckett’s drama synthesizes the encounter between ‘classicism’ and a ‘modern’ form of art. It is well known that Beckett retained a lifelong admiration for Pascal – indeed, Pascal was one of his ‘old chestnuts’ (Knowlson 1997: 653). Little attention has been paid, however, to the originality of Pascal’s thought, the specific nature of his prose, and the impact these might have had upon Beckett’s mature work, especially the trilogy and the subsequent short prose. Yet, in the literary and philosophical context of post-war France, Beckett’s filiation with Pascal, their corresponding preoccupations, were evident to his contemporaries, who identified Pascal as an underlying presence in his works
Detection of Quantum Phase Transitions with a Lee-Yang Formalism and Many-Body Algorithms
No full textPhase transitions in many-body quantum systems arise from the collective behaviour of many degrees of freedom. For many interacting quantum many-body systems, it remains challenging to determine their phase diagram due to the exponential growth in the Hilbert space size and the difficulty of existing numerical techniques to tackle generic interacting quantum many-body systems.
In this thesis, we combine state-of-the-art numerical techniques with an approach to symmetrybreaking phase transitions inspired by the works of Lee and Yang on the zeros of partition functions in the complex plane. Specifically, we study the behaviour and distribution of zeros of the momentgenerating function of the relevant order parameters to locate the phase transitions. We refer to these zeros as Lee-Yang zeros. Our approach involves using tensor networks and neural quantum states as variational states to describe the ground states or finite temperature density matrices of the systems studied. While tensor networks allow for a direct evaluation of the moment-generating function, and therefore a direct determination of the position of these Lee-Yang zeros, this is not possible for neural quantum states. Therefore, we also present a method that uses high cumulants of the order parameter combined with knowledge about the symmetries of the Lee-Yang zeros to estimate their locations. By extrapolating the distance from the origin to these zeros to the thermodynamic limit, the presence of a phase transition can be determined. Using this Lee-Yang formalism, we map out the phase diagram of the transverse field Ising model and a fermionic chain, thereby showing its practical applicability to specific quantum many-body models.
Also using neural quantum states and tensor networks, we determine the phase diagram of a tetramerized antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 J₁-J₂ Heisenberg model on the square lattice. Without relying on our Lee-Yang formalism, we are able to trace out the phase diagram using conventional means, such as studying the susceptibility, spin structure factor and the many-body gap. This model, which has been recently realized in experiment, exhibits an intriguing competition between conventional magnetically ordered phases and a higher-order symmetry protected topological phase. By mapping out its phase diagram, we contribute to guiding experiments towards the parameter regimes of interest
Review of Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal. Edited by Bernard F. Dukore.
No full textDr. Lee Garver\u27s review of Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal. Edited by Bernard F. Dukore. Volume 3 of Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. Pp. 224. $40.00
Susan Lee Carrell : Le Soliloque de la passion féminine ou le dialogue illusoire, (Coll. «Études littéraires françaises », 12) 1982
No full textPascal Jean-Noël. Susan Lee Carrell : Le Soliloque de la passion féminine ou le dialogue illusoire, (Coll. «Études littéraires françaises », 12) 1982. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°16, 1984. D'Alembert. p. 488
Susan Lee Carrell : Le Soliloque de la passion féminine ou le dialogue illusoire, (Coll. «Études littéraires françaises », 12) 1982
No full textPascal Jean-Noël. Susan Lee Carrell : Le Soliloque de la passion féminine ou le dialogue illusoire, (Coll. «Études littéraires françaises », 12) 1982. In: Dix-huitième Siècle, n°16, 1984. D'Alembert. p. 488
Sabil and Wikala of Dhul Fiqar Oda Bashi
No full textinterior, courtyard, "Vue de l'Okel Zoulfiqar," color plate XLIV of Pascal Coste's "Architecture arabe; ou, Monuments du Kaire, mesurés et dessinés, de 1818 à 1826", 1818-182
First person - Aude Pascal
No full textInternational audienceFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Aude Pascal is first author on `Annexin A2 and Ahnak control cortical NuMA-dynein localization and mitotic spindle orientation', published in JCS. Aude is a research assistant in the lab of Re ' gis Giet at University of Rennes, France, who is particularly interested in developmental biology. She has always been struck by the fact that a whole organism displaying multiple functions arises from a single cell. For this reason, she has oriented her research on mitosis and meiosis to study the different steps, components and structures involved in these processes
Pascal Tutorial, 1987
No full textThere exists a limited number of tutorials for the Pascal programming language using the Apple Computer. The demand for these tutorials exceeds the supply. In this thesis an attempt was made to rectify this shortage by designing a Pascal tutorial for the Apple computer. This Pascal tutorial is designed to assist with instructing an introductory computer programming course in Pascal, incorporating Apple Superpilot as the authoring language. Emphasis is placed on making the program "user friendly." A person with no previous programming experience should be able to easily execute this tutorial. The information presented as the subject matter of the tutorial will follow the guidelines recommended by the Association for Computing Machinery
Architecture arabe; ou, Monuments du Kaire, mesurés et dessinés, de 1818 à 1826
No full textgeneral view, "Vue des Tombeaux au Nord-Est de la Ville," color plate LXIII of Pascal Coste's "Architecture arabe; ou, Monuments du Kaire, mesurés et dessinés, de 1818 à 1826", 1818-182
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