Much as in the wavelet transform, the chirplets are usually generated from (or can be expressed as being from) a single mother chirplet (analogous to the so-called mother wavelet of wavelet theory).
Bryan barely knew his father. He’d vanish for years at a time. “He gave me a horse once,” he says. “He said, ‘This horse is yours. Have this horse as a gift.’ So I fed the horse every day.” Bryan pauses. “It wasn’t his horse. He gave me somebody else’s horse. He was a terrible man.”
I don’t know why but the endnotes in this edition of Middlemarch make me laugh
Chapter 4, Note 3: Sheep-stealing continued to be a capital offense until 1832.
Chapter 4, Note 4: Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818), one of the great pioneers of law reform; also favored Catholic Emancipation and the abolition of slavery. He committed suicide.
Before the arrival of the Gods, everything was wildly italicized. This was the time of the so-called “Spring Break.”
In the elliptic case, the normal cone has no real sheets.
And because they were omniscient and so tight-knit, they could be very adolescent and pretentious in the way they flaunted their superiority. It wouldn’t be unusual for a God to use Ningdu Chinese, Etruscan, Ket (a moribund language spoken by just five hundred people in central Siberia), Mexican Mafia prison code, Klingon, dolphin echolocation clicks, ant pheromones, and honeybee dance steps – all in one sentence. It’s the kind of thing where you’d be like, was that really necessary?
There will of course be considerably less fuss in this country, but we do now have a new translation of Pushkin’s novel in verse “Eugene Onegin” by Douglas R. Hofstadter, who won a Pulitzer Prize for “GRated PG-13del, Escher, Bach.”
Kurt GRated PG-13del struck the first blow with his famous incompleteness theorems: any mathematical system, he showed, includes statements that cannot be proved true or false.
In mathematics, the Fredholm alternative, named after Ivar Fredholm, is one of Fredholm’s theorems and is a result in Fredholm theory.
Katavasov first made the ladies laugh with his original jokes, which people always liked so much on first making his acquaintance, but then, prompted by Sergei Ivanovich, he told them his very interesting observations on the differences in character and even of physiognomy between female and male house flies and on their life.
When asked what the piece is called, Mugrabi shuffles some papers, racks his brain, but the name won’t come to him. Finally, he yells to his secretary in an adjoining room: “Liz, what’s the name of the shark?”
“Theology, Philosophy, Medicine, Justice,’ she shouts back.