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Counting Real Connected Components of Trinomial Curve Intersections and m-nomial Hypersurfaces
, 2002 We prove that any pair of bivariate trinomials has at most 5 isolated roots in the positive quadrant. The best previous upper bounds independent of the polynomial degrees were much larger, e.g., 248832 (for just the non-degenerate roots) via a famous ...
Li, Tien-Yien +2 more
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Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 577-593, December 2025.Abstract The physicalist credo is that the world is physical. But some phenomena, such as minds, morals, and mathematics, appear to be nonphysical. While an uncompromising physicalism would reject these, a conciliatory physicalism need not if it can account for them in terms of an underlying physical basis.
Michael J. Raven
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New cases of logarithmic equivalence of Welschinger and Gromov-Witten invariants
, 2006 We consider the product of two projective lines equipped with the complex conjugation transforming $(x,y)$ into $(\bar{y},\bar{x})$ and blown up in at most two real, or two complex conjugate, points.
Itenberg, Ilia +2 more
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The Effect of Seductive Details on Knowledge Retention in Physics Videos: A Mixed Methods Study
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Volume 62, Issue 8, Page 1923-1940, October 2025.ABSTRACT Research reports that interesting but irrelevant information, seductive details, in teaching material can impede learning. In science education, the inclusion of historical narratives in lessons to promote interest has been recommended but may hinder learning.
Richard Brock +2 more
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“R.C.”: Rosicrucianism and Cartesianism in Joyce and Beckett
Miranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2011 This paper explores the possible theosophical and philosophical implications of James Joyce’s recurrent use of the initials “R. C.” in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
Steven Bond
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The Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes: Monist, Materialist and Mechanist [PDF]
, 2012 This essay will present Hobbes as the most consistent philosopher of the 17th century, and show that in all areas his endeavors have cogency that is unrivalled, in many ways even to this day.
Machamer, Peter
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Information in the Brain: From Metaphor to Truth
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 5, October 2025.ABSTRACT Despite explicit warnings from Shannon to tread carefully when applying Information Theory to fields for which it was not designed, contemporary neuroscientists adopting the framework of Information Theory have fallen right into the traps Shannon and others cautioned against. What makes the neuroscientist more than anyone prone to fall prey to
Farid Zahnoun
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DOĞUŞTAN DÜŞÜNCELER ÜZERİNE RENE DESCARTES, JOHN LOCKE VE GOTTFRJED WILHELM LEİBNİZ
Felsefe Dünyası, 2009 DOĞUŞTAN DÜŞÜNCELER ÜZERİNE RENE DESCARTES, JOHN LOCKE VE GOTTFRJED WILHELM ...
Hülya Yaldır
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Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследованийReflections on the book: Fokin, S. L. (2023). Genius of Crooked Thinking. René Descartes and the French Literacy of the Great Age. New Literary Review. (In Russian).
Valeriy V. Savchuk
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, 2008 Describes an experiment in teaching undergraduate epistemology, guided by Peirce’s pragmatic ...
Legg, Catherine
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