The Old English poem known in the modern era as Beowulf consists of some 3182 lines of alliterative verse. The poem is preserved on folios 129r to 198v of a unique and badly damaged Anglo-Saxon manuscript sometimes called the ‘Nowell Codex’ and now known by its shelf mark as the London, British Library, MS. Cotton Vitellius A.xv. The text was copied by two dif…
undance and connectivity are one way of looking at digital phenomena. Umberto Eco in his book The Infinity of Lists poses a challenge from the other side, by asking questions of meaning and hierarchy. As Eco points out, on the one hand, the elements are connected and information is wealthy and omnipotent but, on the other hand, information loses its meaning, and its hierarchies are unsettled in…
The volume you have before you is the first edited collection specifically devoted to philosophy of astrophysics. Our primary aims in producing this volume have been to gather contemporary research in philosophy of astrophysics together in one place as both a reference resource for scholars already working in this subdiscipline and as an introduc…
2019 titelte dAs journALScientific American: The Mycelium Revolution Is upon Us« (Eine Pilz-Revolu-tion steht uns bevor).1 Was war damit gemeint? 100Jahre nach der Geburt der Pilzbiotechnologie – die amerikanische Firma Pfizer begann 1919 zum ersten Mal mithilfe des Pilzes Aspergillus nigerZitronensäure zu produzieren, ein Produkt, welches heute über einen Mil-l…
This text explains how to use mathematical models and methods to analyze problems that arise in computer science. Proofs play a central role in this work because the authors share a belief with most mathematicians that proofs are essential for genuine understanding. Proofs also play a growing role in computer science; they are used to certify that software and hardware will always behave correc…
Gandangdewata berasal dari dua kata, yaitu gandang yang artinya gendang dan dewata yang artinya dewa. Puncak Tanete Gandangdewata, dari jauh, terlihat seperti batu besar yang berbentuk bulat menyerupai gendang raksasa. Gunung Gandangdewata merupakan salah satu gunung tertinggi yang terletak di Kabupaten Mamasa, di bagian barat Sulawesi dan merupakan gunung tertinggi kedua setelah Gunung Latimoj…