Humans have a form of externalised memory. They are able to transmit information across generations in the form of learned cultural traditions and preserve this knowledge in artefacts. How this capability evolved from the simpler traditions of other animals is an active area of research.

Let A be a bounded, relatively closed subset of the upper half plane H whose complement in H is simply connected. If Bt is a standard complex Brownian motion and τA = inf{t ≥ 0 : Bt 6∈ H \A}, the half-plane capacity hcap(A) is defined as hcap(A) := lim y→∞ y E [Im(BτA)] . This quantity arises in the study of Schramm-Loewner Evolutions (SLE). In this note, we show that hcap(A) is comparable to a...

Research reveals dramatic differences in the ways that people from different cultures perceive the world around them. Individuals from Western cultures tend to focus on that which is object-based, categorically related, or self-relevant whereas people from Eastern cultures tend to focus more on contextual details, similarities, and group-relevant information. These different ways of perceiving ...