Math at the Met

At the Interface of Math and

Paul Atzberger, a professor in UCSB's Department of Mathematics and in mechanical engineering. In popular culture, mathematics is often deemed inaccessible or esoteric. Yet in the modern world, it plays an ever more important role in our daily lives and a decisive role in the discovery and development of new ideas — often behind the scenes.

QUALIBETA at the NTCIR-11 Math 2 Task: An Attempt to Query Math Collections

This project introduces our first attempt to mathematical retrieval of formulae from a large collection for the NTCIR-11 Math 2 task. Our approach combined a feature-extracted sequence mechanism of the formulae and a sentence level representation of the text describing the formulae to model the collection. The feature-extracted sequences used were: the category of the formulae, the sets of iden...

TUW-IMP at the NTCIR-11 Math-2

The TUW-IMP team participated in the NTCIR-11 Math-2 task for retrieving mathematical formulae in scientific documents. This report describes our approach to solving the given math retrieval problem.

Should my accountant sing La Traviata at the Met?

The request for this Point / Counterpoint was received on Sept. 6, 2007. It was also the day that Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti died at the age of 71 from advanced pancreatic cancer. One year earlier, Pavarotti had developed resectable pancreatic cancer and underwent a pancreaticoduodenectomy, or Whipple resection, in New York. Why did he have his surgery in New York? Well, Pavarotti was...

Un ballo in maschera: Performance Practices at the Met