The Etymology of "Dismal"

Medical Etymology

Dismal Arithmetic

Dismal arithmetic is just like the arithmetic you learned in school, only simpler: there are no carries, when you add digits you just take the largest, and when you multiply digits you take the smallest. This paper studies basic number theory in this world, including analogues of the primes, number of divisors, sum of divisors, and the partition function.

Notes from the Dismal Science

1. Keynesian stimuli don’t work? That assertion amounts to pure propaganda. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the Obama stimulus created or saved from one to three million jobs. And many voices joined in. For example, the top economic model building company, Macroeconomic Advisers, estimated a gain of 2.6 million jobs. Even a top conservative economist, Robert Barro, regards the st...

Etymology, history, and artifacts

Elliptic really does have a connection with literal geometric ellipses, removed by a few steps. Integrals expressing arc length of ellipses are less elementary than integrals for inverse trigonometric functions, and were named elliptic because of this. Abel and Jacobi discovered in 1827 that the inverse functions are doubly periodic (explained below). This chain of events caused these functions...

A brief etymology of the collateral circulation.

It is well known that the protective capacity of the collateral circulation falls short in many individuals with ischemic disease of the heart, brain, and lower extremities. In the past 15 years, opportunities created by molecular and genetic tools, together with disappointing outcomes in many angiogenic trials, have led to a significant increase in the number of studies that focus on: understa...