News tagged with symbols
Inside a mathematical proof lies literature, says Stanford's Reviel Netz
Like novelists, mathematicians are creative authors. With diagrams, symbolism, metaphor, double entendre and elements of surprise, a good proof reads like a good story.
May 08, 2012 |
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Computer scientist cracks mysterious 'Copiale Cipher'
The manuscript seems straight out of fiction: a strange handwritten message in abstract symbols and Roman letters meticulously covering 105 yellowing pages, hidden in the depths of an academic archive.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Who color-coded Christmas?
Red and green – the conventional colours of Christmas – are not, as many might suppose, a legacy of the Victorians. Instead, they hark back to the Middle Ages and perhaps even earlier, according ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Crows are capable of distinguishing symbols, study finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study published in Animal Behavior shows that crows are capable of recognizing symbols designed to represent different quantities and is one of many different studies currently lookin ...
Oct 10, 2011 |
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Fujitsu accelerates verification of Java software through parallel processing
Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of technology enabling high-speed exhaustive verification of Java software using parallel processing. In ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 24, 2010 |
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Scientists develop new way to decipher hidden messages in symbols
(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost all information, in a sense, can be represented by symbols. In order to extract this embedded information, the symbols and the rules governing their sequence formation need to be deciphered. ...
Sep 27, 2010 |
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Reading Arabic isn't easy
A series of studies published in Neuropsychology has shown that because of the visual complexity of Arabic orthography, the brain's right hemisphere is not involved in decoding the text in the first stages of learning to rea ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem
A tiny clay fragment - dating from the 14th century B.C.E. - that was found in excavations outside Jerusalem's Old City walls contains the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem, say researchers at ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 12, 2010 |
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Entropy study suggests Pictish symbols likely were part of a written language
(PhysOrg.com) -- How can you tell the difference between random pictures and an ancient, symbol-based language? A new study has shown that concepts in entropy can be used to measure the degree of repetitiveness ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Healing for hospital signs that don't work
Hospitals are large, complex institutions housing innumerable units, sections and visitor destinations.
May 17, 2010 |
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Academic claims that election colours have faded
As the UK election looms, a historian at the University of Hertfordshire has revealed that political colours have lost much of their impact.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 29, 2010 |
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Computers unlock more secrets of the mysterious Indus Valley script
Four-thousand years ago, an urban civilization lived and traded on what is now the border between Pakistan and India. During the past century, thousands of artifacts bearing hieroglyphics left by this prehistoric ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 03, 2009 |
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'Copernicium' proposed as name for newly discovered element 112
In honor of scientist and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the discovering team around Professor Sigurd Hofmann suggested the name "copernicium" with the element symbol "Cp" for the new element 112, discovered ...
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Underground cave dating from the year 1 A.D. exposed in Jordan Valley
An artificial underground cave, the largest in Israel, has been exposed in the Jordan Valley in the course of a survey carried out by the University of Haifa's Department of Archaeology.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Indus script encodes language, reveals new study of ancient symbols
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 23, 2009 |
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