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Looking For Math In All The Wrong Places
No full textThe soul of mathematics is skeptical inquiry, experiment, exploration, discovery, and analysis - skills important in every human pursuit. You do not need any advanced training to appreciate that mathematics can be found everywhere.
Let us take a look with Professor Shai Simonson, author of the of the recently published Looking For Math In All The Wrong Places: Math in Real Life
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The Missing Problems of Gersonides—A Critical Edition, II
No full textAbstractGersonides' Maaseh Hoshev (The Art of Calculation) is a major work known for its early use of rigorous combinatorial proofs and mathematical induction. There is a large section of problems at the end of the book, with the theme of proportions, which until now remained unpublished. I present a critical edition of this material. I also uncover a previously unknown second edition of Maaseh Hoshev. The material is appropriate for creative pedagogy and provides economic details of the author's culture and environs. A previous article presented the first, 15 problems and this article presents the rest. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.Le Maase Hoshev (L'Art du Calcul) de Gersonide est un ouvrage majeur connu pour son usage précoce de preuves combinatoires rigoreuses et de l'induction mathématique. La fin de l'ouvrage comporte une section importante consacrée a une série de trente problèmes sur le thème des proportions qui était restée inédite jusqu'à ce jour et dont je présente pour la première fois une édition critique. Je révèle également l'éxistence d'une séconde édition de Maase Hoshev. Le matériau peut servir de base à des projets de pédagogie créative et offre des détails sur la culture et l'environnement de l'auteur. Cet article fait suite a une première étude qui présentait les quinze premiers problèmes de Maase Hoshev et en présente les quinze autres
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
The Missing Problems of Gersonides—A Critical Edition, I
No full textAbstractGersonides' Maaseh Hoshev (The Art of Calculation) is a major work known for its early use of rigorous combinatorial proofs and mathematical induction. There is a large section of problems at the end of the book, with the theme of proportions, which until now has remained unpublished. I present a critical edition of this material. I also uncover a previously unknown second edition of Maaseh Hoshev. The material is appropriate for creative pedagogy and provides economic details of the author's culture and environs. This article presents the first 15 problems and a subsequent article presents the rest. Copyright 2000 Academic Press.[formula]Copyright 2000 Academic Press.Le Maase Hoshev (L'Art du Calcul) de Gersonide est un ouvrage majeur connu pour son usage précoce de preuves combinatoires rigoureuses et de l'induction mathématique. La fin de l'ouvrage comporte une section importante consacrée a une série de trente problèmes sur le thème des proportions qui était restée inédite jusqu'à ce jour et don't je présente pour la première fois une édition critique. Je révéle également l'éxistence d'une séconde édition de Maase Hoshev. Le matériau peut servir de base a des projets de pédagogie créative et offre des détails sur la culture et l'environnement de l'auteur. Cet article présente les quinze premiers problèmes de Maase Hoshev; un sécond article en présente les quinze autres
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