Mathematics, Substance and Surmise
Views on the Meaning and Ontology of Mathematics
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Correction to: Diagnostic accuracy of eFAST in the trauma patient: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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Starting, building and sustaining a program of research in emergency medicine in Canada
To develop pragmatic recommendations for starting, building and sustaining a program of research in emergency medicine (EM) in Canada at sites with limited infrastructure and/or prior research experience.
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Open AccessElevated myocardial fructose and sorbitol levels are associated with diastolic dysfunction in diabetic patients, and cardiomyocyte lipid inclusions in vitro
Diabetes is associated with cardiac metabolic disturbances and increased heart failure risk. Plasma fructose levels are elevated in diabetic patients. A direct role for fructose involvement in diabetic heart p...
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Outcomes of out of hospital cardiac arrest in First Nations and non-First Nations patients in Saskatoon
One in nine (11.7%) people in Saskatchewan identify as First Nations. It is known that First Nations people have a higher burden of cardiovascular disease, but not whether outcomes of out of hospital cardiac a...
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Mathematical products
A prominent mathematician recently sent me an article he had written and asked me for my reaction. After studying it, I said that he was proposing a mathematical “product” and that as such it stood in the scie...
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Correction to: The Mathematical Experience, Study Edition
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The Mathematical Landscape
ANIVE DEFINITION, adequate for the dictiuonary and for an initial understanding, is that mathematics is the science of quality and space. Expanding this definition a bit, one might add that mathematics also deals...
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Outer Issues
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT if you want to do physics or engineering, you had better be good at mathematics. More and more people are finding out that if you want to work in certian areas of econimics or biology, you ...
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Selected Topics in Mathematics
THE HEART of the mathematical experience is, of course, mathematics itself. This is the material in the technical journals, monographs, and, if deemed sufficiently intersting and important, the material that i...
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From Certainty to Fallibility
IF YOU DO mathematics every day, it seems the most natural thing in the world. if you stop to think about what you are doing and what you means, it seems one of the most mysterious. How are we able to tell abo...
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Varieties of Mathematical Experience
THERE IS A LIMITIED amount of knowledge, practice, and aspiration which is currently manifested in the thoughts and activites of contemporary mathematicians. The mathematics that is frequently used or is in th...
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Inner Issues
THE SPECIAL SINGNS that consititute part of the written mathematical record from a numerous and colorful addition to the signs of the natural languages. The child in grade school soon learns the ten digits 0, ...
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Teaching and Learning
TED WILLIAMS (pseudonym) is the Chairman of the Mathematics Departement in a fine private school in New England. He was interviewed in April, 1978.
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Mathematical Reality
Let us look at some specific examples of mathematical work and see what philosophical lessons we can draw from them. We will find that the activity of mathematical research forces a recognition of the objectivity...
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The stage set the record straight, kindly but firmly
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Mickey Flies the Stealth
This article describes in a vivid and popular way the intimate relationship between mathematics, computer graphics, entertainment and warfare.
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Ein Blick in die Zukunft: Mathematik in einer Multimedia-Zivilisation
Gleich zu Beginn möchte ich erläutern, was ich unter dem Begriff „Multimedia-Zivilisation“ verstehe. Ich verwende ihn in zwei Bedeutungen. Zunächst ist er einfach ein Synonym für das Jahr 1998 und etwa die näc...
