Thank you for your love, encouragement, and support. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I probably could have written an acknowledgement chapter that is of comparable size to the tracking parts of this thesis. In life, sometimes it is not the end result that matters, but the journey that leads to it that does. This dissertation is an important step in my life; however, what is more important to me are the co...

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It has been claimed by some mathematicians that Bernhard Riemann was the last great ”Renaissance man” of mathematics, in that he was quite knowledgeable of–and, indeed, proved major theorems in–several seemingly disjoint branches of the subject. One could argue for other notable exceptions from the 20th century–perhaps John von Neumann, Bertrand Russell, even Douglas Hofstadter–but the fact rem...

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