The Baker Bells have been a Dartmouth fixture since 1928 when they first rang from the top of Baker Library. They mark the passage of time, ringing on the hour and half-hour. At 6pm every day, the sounds of the “Alma Mater” fill the campus. The bells can also be programmed to play everything from “Happy Birthday” to the Beatles. For our project, we decided to apply what we learned in class to i...

Are there good reasons for including mathematical objects such as numbers, sets, and functions as part of our ultimate catalogue of the furniture of the universe? Recent debates within the philosophy of mathematics over this sort of general ontological question have centered on the pros and cons of the so-called Indispensability Argument. The basic idea behind this argument is quite straightfor...

JOHN P1mLIPS was not a Devon man and the colic which he described with such evident personal feeling was not the Devonshire colic. In the eighteenth century the cider making counties of England were the shires of Devon, Hereford and Gloucester. Cider was being made in Devonshire in the thirteenth century. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, when Defoe visited the county he remarked on t...

A notion of rational Baker-Akhiezer (BA) function related to a configuration of hyperplanes in C is introduced. It is proved that BA function exists only for very special configurations (locus configurations), which satisfy certain overdetermined algebraic system. The BA functions satisfy some algebraically integrable Schrödinger equations, so any locus configuration determines such an equation...

Contact dermatitis of hands is frequent among bakers and, as in other subjects doing ‘wet work’ and/or exposed to powders, is classically irritant in origin (1). This often results in allergic causes being overlooked and, consequently, not investigated adequately, despite the multiple potential allergens in the workplace. We present a case of occupational hand eczema caused by a well-known and ...

The circle of problems that the present paper belongs to dates back to the 1930s, namely, to K. Mahler’s work on a classification of transcendental real and complex numbers. For a polynomial P (x) = a0 + a1x + · + anx n ∈ Z[x], let us denote by hP the height of P , that is, hP def = maxi=0,...,n |ai|. It can be easily shown using Dirichlet’s Principle that for any z ∈ C and any n ∈ N there exis...