From Évariste Galois, the genius who laid the foundations
for modern group theory before dying at 20 in a mysterious duel, to René Descartes, who wrote «I think, therefore I am» after a career as a mercenary, the personalities chronicled here expose a side of mathematics far removed from its usual staid reputation.
Not exact matches
While Bitcoin is often criticized because it's not backed by a physical commodity, that's not an issue
for Michael Lee, an economist in the New York Fed's Research and Statistics
Group, who says that neither is the dollar and most
modern currencies.
This week, UnitedHealth
Group, the country's biggest health insurer, said it would review and, if necessary, adjust «facility claims
for the most severe and costly ED visits
for patients enrolled in the company's commercial and Medicare Advantage plans,» the trade publication
Modern Healthcare reported today.
Microsoft just joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a
group dedicated to promoting a
modern way
for businesses to run their software.
Swedish media company
Modern Times
Group has acquired a majority stake (74 %) of Turtle Entertainment, the holding company
for ESL
for $ 87 million.
Burwood
Group was recognized as one of
Modern Healthcare's 2017 Best Places to Work in Healthcare
for empowering employees to provide patients and customers with the best possible care, products and services.
«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better
for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses of advanced technologies, data analytics, and
modern clinical approaches that improve quality, lower cost and advance consumer and care provider satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth
Group, said in a conference call.
Rather, the evidences of
modern people -
groups and ancient people -
groups show a high percentage of humankind reaching
for the supernatural no matter what life they have encountered.
@Bill I think that much of the «skewed hyper seexualization of the
modern culture» is a backlash against the skewed, hyper demonization of s.ex by religious
groups for hundreds of years, most especially by puritan
groups in America.
The Bible, however, still presents some problems to the
modern reader as he faces the actual text, and so this book tries to meet those problems
for the person — alone or in a
group — who is willing to sit before the material and allow it to speak to him.
Whether we like it or not it would be blind not to admit that
for most people in the
modern world religion is first of all an identity, a label, a badge of allegiance of a
group.
Niebuhr said that
modern culture too easily assumes that the level of sanctification in the life of the individual can be regarded as a simple possibility
for social
groups.
But it is not my purpose here to go into this, or to consider the various
modern patterns, the question of divorce after marriage, the case often made
for group marriages, and the like.
The idea of vocation that developed in the Reformation was originally a powerful one, and it remains a meaningful guide to Christian existence
for a sizable
group in
modern society.
And the secular Jews who founded
modern Israel granted the Orthodox the right to control matters of personal life (marriage and divorce,
for example) not only
for pragmatic reasons (they wanted the political support of this
group) but also because they realized that many, if not most, victims of the Holocaust came from its ranks.
Writing of the French Revolution, Mosse observes: «This new politics attempted the politicization of the masses, which,
for the first time in
modern history, functioned as a pressure
group and not just through episodic uprisings or short «lived riots.»
Let us assume that the strangely contagious
modern obsession with democratic ideals is nothing else than the feeling and liking Man has acquired
for a process which, by the collective organization of the zoological
group to which he belongs, is carrying him towards certain new states of super-personalization — or, which comes to the same thing, super-reflection.
Any
group that will find a way to the actual sharing of human lives will make a difference either
for good or ill in the
modern world or in any world.
Since the modernizing aspect is Pentecostalism's novelty and what also makes the motivational strategies
for confronting poverty of the Pentecostal
groups more adequate and useful in
modern capitalist societies, it can be concluded that perhaps these elements are the strongest attraction
for the poor.
That was the consensus opinion of four wine industry experts — W.R. Tish of Beverage Media
Group, David Ransom of The Tasting Panel and The SOMM Journal, Gregg Glaser of
Modern Distillery Age, and Felicity Carter of Meininger's Wine Business International — who recently gathered
for a media panel at the 2016 USA Trade Testing Conference.
With over 3,200 sq. ft. of
modern meeting space, high - tech A / V equipment, and flexible event spaces to accommodate
groups from 10 to 120 guests, you'll have everything you need
for a productive and successful event.
Barney will be primarily responsible
for the buying of all bulk wine
for the wider County Durham based Lanchester
Group which includes Europe's most
modern bottling facility, Greencroft Bottling.
Australian agricultural industry
groups are bracing
for attacks from animal activists globally following the recent release of an explosive documentary which claims to «expose the dark underbelly of
modern animal agriculture».
Meeting spaces can be accommodated
for groups from 10 - 140 guests in a total of six customizable meeting and event rooms with
modern A / V equipment, hi - speed internet, and customized packages.
This constant search
for excellence relies on the particular talents of the men and women of the
group, on the utmost quality of its products and on a complete knowledge of
modern technologies.
Hope Wine
Group is looking
for a qualified and self - motivated laboratory technician to perform all aspects of wine & beer analysis and quality control in a
modern winery setting.
Dave and Megan set aside a recent morning — in between catering two weddings and hosting a neighborhood caroling
group for a holiday party — to explain how they are building a
modern day neighborhood bakery.
In this role, Darpino is responsible
for seeking out event and marketing opportunities
for Tableseide Restaurant
Group and its brands, including Libby's Café + Bar, Louies
Modern, Muse at The Ringling, Oak & Stone, Banyan Café, The Francis and
Modern Events.
While online support
groups can serve as a springboard
for meeting other mothers,
modern technology will never be able to replace the human hug as the most ideal form of understanding and encouragement.
But at least
for me,
modern life just doesn't have a network or support
group like that.
Other Talented Nominees
for this Award included: Edit Your Life with Christine Koh & Asha Dornfest The League of Awesome Unicorns with Deanna Zandt and Alice Bradley The
Modern Dads Podcast with City Dads
Group The Home Hour with Meagan Francis Poppin Bottles Dad - Cast with Ben Mullen and Nick Browne
Using
modern technology and tactics to get their message across, WHO Code supporters are busy online, especially in Facebook
groups «Friends of the WHO Code» and the
group for LLL Leaders «WHO Code
for LLL.»
Just like busy moms in
modern times, Smith believes «the shorter nursing times would have given mothers the freedom to reproduce more frequently and gather food
for the
group.»
They wheeled out Mary Brett, a trustee of Cannabis Skunk Sense, possibly the worst - named pressure
group in
modern Britain, to say his call
for reform contradicted his concern
for mental health:
Too much of the state's election process
for judges revolves around raising money, said Dennis R. Hawkins, executive director of the Fund
for Modern Courts, a New York City - based
group that favors reform of the judicial selection process.
Major education stakeholder
groups across the country argue the higher standards are necessary to prepare students
for college and the
modern global workplace.
Unions and parents
groups rallied last April when New York became the second state to begin testing based on the Common Core, a set of learning standards that aim to give students a deeper understanding of material and boost skills necessary
for the
modern job market.
The study also gives paleontologists new reason to scrutinize early Paleocene rocks, not to mention existing museum collections,
for signs of other representatives of
modern bird
groups, Witmer says.
All the particles and forces in the standard model, the dominant schema of
modern physics, are represented by Lie
groups, and their study has become an essential tool
for understanding — and attempting to unify — the laws of nature.
«The weak activity previously published
for the ACT family as a whole probably explains why this
group was not further evaluated, and it is intriguing to think that other potentially useful antibiotic
groups are languishing in obscurity in academic journals just needing expert review using
modern processes and equipment.»
Published in the journal Nature this week, the
group challenges reports that these inhabitants of remote Flores island co-existed with
modern humans
for tens of thousands of years.
Pääbo,
for his part, says that now that his team has shown that early
modern humans interbred with one archaic
group, he thinks other archaic humans might have passed along genes to us through interbreeding.
For example, we can observe that when males are significantly bigger than females in
modern primates, males are likely to live in
groups with breeding access to several females.
Modern lobbyists
for environment
groups will eat their hearts out at the sheer range of his contacts.
In the years after World War II, on the grounds of the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton, mathematician John von Neumann assembled a
group of eccentric engineers to build and program a «universal machine» — the
modern computer's direct ancestor, which was first envisioned by logician Alan Turing.
Today's mollusks are a wildly diverse bunch, from octopuses and oysters to snails and slugs — a
modern miscellany that has made it tough
for scientists to envision what the
group's oldest common ancestors looked like.
Evolutionary geneticists Svante Pääbo, Johannes Krause, and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute
for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, ground up a 30 - milligram sample and extracted and sequenced all of the 16,569 base pairs of its mtDNA genome, using new techniques Pääbo's
group has successfully employed to sequence both Neandertal and prehistoric
modern human DNA.
It also means that
modern humans were potentially meeting and interacting during a longer period of time with other archaic human
groups, providing more opportunity
for cultural and biological exchanges.»
Because scientists know Neandertals and
modern humans mated with each other, «is it possible that the «
modern» DNA these late Neandertal
groups picked up included genes
for enhanced cognitive abilities?»
Modern birds, a
group called Neornithes (a name that combines neo and a variant of ornis, the Greek words
for «new» and «bird,» respectively) are the most diverse and widespread vertebrates on Earth today.