Although William Harvey is usually remembered for his discovery of the circulation of the blood, this is not the only reason for choosing him as the pivot of this lecture: it is also his attitude to truth and knowledge which well exemplifies the spirit of his age, and this spirit is more important than any single discovery, however significant. Harvey was born towards the end of the 16th centur...

Given a finitely presented group G and an epimorphism φ : G → Z Cochran and Harvey defined a sequence of invariants dn(G,φ) ∈ N0, n ∈ N0, which can be viewed as the degrees of higher–order Alexander polynomials. Cochran and Harvey showed that (up to a minor modification) this is a never decreasing sequence of numbers if G is the fundamental group of a 3–manifold with empty or toroidal boundary....

Scattering effects from microtopographic surface roughness are merely nonparaxial diffraction phenomena resulting from random phase variations in the reflected or transmitted wavefront. Rayleigh-Rice, Beckmann-Kirchhoff. or Harvey-Shack surface scatter theories are commonly used to predict surface scatter effects. Smooth-surface and/or paraxial approximations have severely limited the range of ...

While the study of Harvey's natural philosophy, in particular the analysis of the anatomy lectures and of De motu cordis, is insightful and persuasive, the section devoted to philosophy teaching in Cambridge when Harvey was a student is somewhat cursory and it is not clear why French decided to base his investigation on John Case's Ancilla, which was published in 1599-when Harvey had already mo...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society)Volume 185, Issue 3 p. 763-767 EDITORIAL celebration Harvey Goldstein’s lifetime contributions: journey data linkage with Goldstein Katie Harron, Corresponding Author Harron [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-3418-2856 UCL Great Ormond Street Institute Child Health, London, UK Correspondence UK. Email: [email protected]...

US Patent 6,284,563 (Joseph Fjelstad) describes a method of making compliant microelectronic assemblies. This technique introduces a compliant layer (140) with a number of concave areas on top of a microelectronic element. Conductive flexible bond ribbons (175) are plated in these concave areas and extend to the periphery of the device. Electrical contacts can be formed with precision by placin...

In this essay, Jennifer Richards suggests that a study of Gabriel Harvey’s neglected poetry and prose qualifies his current reputation as a purely pragmatic Renaissance humanist. In his literary writings, Harvey explores the different ways in which social bonds are formed and sustained; this interest is also manifested in his marginalia. Richards considers the continuity between Harvey’s work a...

We consider the problem of testing hypotheses on the copula density from n bidimensional observations. We wish to test the null hypothesis characterized by a parametric class against a composite nonparametric alternative. Each density under the alternative is separated in the L2-norm from any density lying in the null hypothesis. The copula densities under consideration are supposed to belong t...