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On Buffon Machines and Numbers [PDF]

Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 2009
The well-know needle experiment of Buffon can be regarded as an analog (i.e., continuous) device that stochastically "computes" the number 2/pi ~ 0.63661, which is the experiment's probability of success.
Flajolet, Philippe, Pelletier, Maryse, Soria, Michele   +2 more
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Buffon's problem with a pivot needle [PDF]

Elemente der Mathematik, 2014
In this paper, we solve Buffon's needle problem for a needle consisting of two line segments connected in a pivot point.Comment: 4 pages, 1 ...
Bäsel, Uwe
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Buffon's new concept of history

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
This article raises the question of the meaning given by Buffon to the notion of history, through a reexamination of three aspects of a problem which has become traditional in a series of critical discussions: to what extent can Buffon's Histoire naturelle be considered as historical?
Raphaël Authier
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Hermeneutics and Nature [PDF]

, 2018
This paper contributes to the on-going research into the ways in which the humanities transformed the natural sciences in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries. By investigating the relationship between hermeneutics -- as developed by Herder
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A Quantized Johnson Lindenstrauss Lemma: The Finding of Buffon's Needle [PDF]

, 2015
In 1733, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in France, set the ground of geometric probability theory by defining an enlightening problem: What is the probability that a needle thrown randomly on a ground made of equispaced parallel strips lies on ...
Jacques, Laurent
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Charles Willson Peale’s The Exhumation of the Mastodon and the Great Chain of Being: The Interaction of Religion, Science, and Art in Early-Federal America [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper, I explore Peale’s monumental painting, a work that is many things, a self-portrait and history painting among others. Indeed, in this painting, Peale was responding to science, religion, and their shifting positions within early-nineteenth-
Zygmont, Bryan J.
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Confluent Thalamic Hyperintensities in CADASIL [PDF]

, 2010
Background: CADASIL is responsible for diffuse hyperintensities in the white matter on FLAIR images. These lesions are often associated with focal lesions in the basal ganglia such as lacunar infarctions.
Chabriat, Hugues, Dichgans, Martin, Düring, Marco, Guichard, Jean-Pierre, Herve, Dominique, Jacqmin, Mathilde, Viswanathan, Anand   +6 more
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Mobile objects: the space of shells in eighteenth-century France [PDF]

, 2006
The frequent distinction made between scientific and purely amateur collections misrepresents the specificity of the field of eighteenth-century natural history.
Dietz, Bettina
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Two-index generalisations of Superconformal Algebras [PDF]

, 1996
The superconformal algebras of Ademollo et al are generalised to a multi-index form. The structure obtained is similar to the Moyal Bracket analogue of the Neveu-Schwarz Algebra.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX, no ...
Fairlie, D. B., Nuyts, Jean
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History without time : Buffon's Natural History, as a non-mathematical physique

, 2010
International audienceWhile "natural history" is practically synonymous with the name of Buffon, the term itself has been otherwise overlooked by historians of science.
Hoquet, Thierry
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