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Character (mathematics)
About: Character (mathematics) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 46723 publications have been published within this topic receiving 411412 citations.
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01 Jan 1988
TL;DR: The connections between philosophical and non-philosophical concerns in the area of free will and responsibility have been questioned by as discussed by the authors, who argue that the philosophical concerns grow out of the non-physics ones, that they take off where the nonphilosophy questions stop.
Abstract: Philosophers who study the problems of free will and responsibility have an easier time than most in meeting challenges about the relevance of their work to ordinary, practical concerns. Indeed, philosophers who study these problems are rarely faced with such challenges at all, since questions concerning the conditions of responsibility come up so obviously and so frequently in everyday life. Under scrutiny, however, one might question whether the connections between philosophical and nonphilosophical concerns in this area are real. In everyday contexts, when lawyers, judges, parents, and others are concerned with issues of responsibility, they know, or think they know, what in general the conditions of responsibility are. Their questions are questions of application: Does this or that particular person meet this or that particular condition? Is this person mature enough, or informed enough, or sane enough to be responsible? Was he or she acting under posthypnotic suggestion or under the influence of a mind-impairing drug? It is assumed, in these contexts, that normal, fully developed adult human beings are responsible beings. The questions have to do with whether a given individual falls within the normal range. By contrast, philosophers tend to be uncertain about the general conditions of responsibility, and they care less about dividing the responsible from the nonresponsible agents than about determining whether, and if so why, any of us are ever responsible for anything at all. In the classroom, we might argue that the philosophical concerns grow out of the nonphilosophical ones, that they take off where the nonphilosophical questions stop.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied algebraic loop groups and affine Grassmannians in positive character istic and proved the normality of Schubert-varieties, the construction of line-bundles on the affine grassmannian, and the proof that they induce line-branching on the moduli-stack of torsors.
Abstract: We study algebraic loop groups and affine Grassmannians in positive character- istic. The main results are normality of Schubert-varieties, the construction of line-bundles on the affine Grassmannian, and the proof that they induce line-bundles on the moduli-stack of torsors.
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01 Jan 1949
TL;DR: "An Actor must work all his life, cultivate his mind, train his talents systematically, develop his character; he may never despair and never relinquish this main pupose - to love his art with all his strength and love it unselfishly." (Constantin Stanislavski) as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: "An Actor must work all his life, cultivate his mind, train his talents systematically, develop his character; he may never despair and never relinquish this main pupose - to love his art with all his strength and love it unselfishly." (Constantin Stanislavski)
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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: In this paper, the author reflects on the character and aims of the university, assessing its guiding principles, its practical functions and its role in society, and assesses its importance in society.
Abstract: University education has been the subject of vigorous debate since its advent. In this book the author reflects on the character and aims of the university, assessing its guiding principles, its practical functions and its role in society.
196 citations