http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/225955 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:24:57 GMT 2013-06-19T16:24:57Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/244682 Title: Squaring the Circle: A Mathematical Meditation on the Emptiness of Meanings Without Experience Authors: Vassiliadis, Vassilios S. Abstract: This paper presents the idea that Mathematics in itself is never a pure subject, as such a concept cannot exist outside the space of human consciousness or in fact any other consciousness that conceive concepts based on its experiential sensory input. Even Pure Mathematics is considered in this “meditation” to be a model of physical observations, thus placing the emphasis on Physics as the ultimate and only feasible Science. A corollary of this logic is that there is no possibility for such a thing as objective observation when consciousness is always the one recording the observation of a phenomenon it perceives. The importance of these ideas is clearly something that affects philosophically and practically all Sciences apart from Mathematics. It is important to recognise the impact they have on Psychology and Psychiatry as any form of observation will be observed inadvertently by the patient/client and will have an impact in the psyche. The paper presents some toy manipulations to create artificially defined families of “circles” through effectively arbitrary definitions using Dimensional Analysis. The value of these toy problems is to show that these may be possible in some other conscious space, some other “reality” and that Mathematics may be a very flexible symbolic representation language that could at least quantify such concepts which are impossible to observe directly from the human consciousness point of view. The implications examined in this paper range from Mathematics, Computing, Science, and the sciences associated with Psychology and Psychiatry. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/244682 2013-06-18T23:00:00Z http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/244204 Title: Corpus of Ancient Mesopotamian Scholarship/Geography of Knowledge Authors: Robson, Eleanor; Tinney, Steve; Besnier, Marie-Françoise; Clancier, Philippe; Cunningham, Graham; Reynolds, Frances; Stadthouders, Henry; Van Buylaere, Greta; Veldhuis, Niek Description: These XML files are an output of the AHRC-funded research project, "The Geography of Knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia", which ran at the Universities of Cambridge and Pennsylvania, 2007-12, under the direction of Eleanor Robson and Steve Tinney. They contain alphabetic transliterations and translations of some 600 cuneiform texts from the ancient cities of Kalhu (Nimrud), Huzirina (Sultantepe) and Uruk (Warka), along with secondary bibliography. The files are in TEI P5 format and are released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. This is an end-of-funding spin-off deposit in the first instance. The corpus will continue to be maintained and augmented. The current instantiation, with full searching and glossary functionality, is live at http://oracc.org/cams/gkab/ Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk:80/handle/1810/244204 2013-01-22T00:00:00Z