Hardy, G H, A Course of Pure Mathematics, Cambridge UP 1993 Jacket: 'There can be few textbooks of mathematics as well-known as Hardy's Pure Mathematics. Since its publication in 1908, it has been a classic work to which successive generations of budding mathematicians have turned at the beginning of their undergraduate courses. In its pages Hardy combines the enthusiasm of a missionary with the rigour of a purist in his exposition of the fundamental ideas of the differential and integral calculus, of the properties of infinite series and of other topics involving the notion of limit.' 
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Kolmogorov, Andrey Nikolaevich, and Nathan Morrison (Translator) (With an added bibliography by A T Bharucha-Reid), Foundations of the Theory of Probability, Chelsea 1956 Preface: 'The purpose of this monograph is to give an axiomatic foundation for the theory of probability. . . . This task would have been a rather hopeless one before the introduction of Lebesgue's theories of measure and integration. However, after Lebesgue's publication of his investigations, the analogies between measure of a set and mathematical expectation of a random variable became apparent. These analogies allowed of further extensions; thus, for example, various properties of independent random variables were seen to be in complete analogy with the corresponding properties of orthogonal functions . . .' 
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Piketty, Thomas, and (translated by Arthur Goldhammer), Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Belknap, Harvard University Press 2014 Jacket: 'What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories, In Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings will transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and equality.'  
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Andrew P Street, Time for new voices" Why Steve Price's tired schtick is getting very very old., 'And it's easy – and also fun! – to criticise Price for his casual misogyny and to giggle at how flustered and defensive he got when the woman he was attempting to talk over refused to yield. It's deserving of mockery, because he was legitimately acting like an clown. But, in his defence, that's his thing. There's an inexplicably competitive market in Australian media for the niche best described as "middle-aged man suspicious of everything that's not him" . . . ' back

Beatific vision - Wikipedia, Beatific vision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In Christian theology, the beatific vision (Latin: visio beatifica) is the ultimate direct self communication of God to the individual person. A person possessing the beatific vision reaches, as a member of redeemed humanity in the communion of saints, perfect salvation in its entirety, i.e. heaven. The notion of vision stresses the intellectual component of salvation, though it encompasses the whole of human experience of joy, happiness coming from seeing God finally face to face and not imperfectly through faith. (1 Cor 13:11–12). It is related to the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox belief in theosis, and is seen in most – if not all – church denominations as the reward for Christians in the afterlife.' back

Ben Hubbard, A Saudi Morals Enforcer Called for a More Liberal Islam. Then the Death Treats Began, 'For years, Mr. Ghamdi stuck with the program and was eventually put in charge of the Commission for the region of Mecca, Islam’s holiest city. Then he had a reckoning and began to question the rules. So he turned to the Quran and the stories of the Prophet Muhammad and his companions, considered the exemplars of Islamic conduct. What he found was striking and life altering: There had been plenty of mixing among the first generation of Muslims, and no one had seemed to mind.' back

CERN, LHC experiments, 'Seven experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) use detectors to analyse the myriad of particles produced by collisions in the accelerator. These experiments are run by collaborations of scientists from institutes all over the world. Each experiment is distinct, and characterized by its detectors. . . . While the main focus of research at CERN has moved in recent years towards the LHC, experiments at other accelerators and facilities both on-site and off remain an important part of the laboratory’s activities.' back

Clive Hamilton, One Nation, Climate Denial and those Jewssh Bankers, back

Colbert I King, This national disorder is who we really are, 'But if the immigrant-bashers, the bigoted frat boys, the shooters in Orlando, Minnesota, Baton Rouge, Dallas — and don’t forget Charleston, S.C. — aren’t who we are, then to whom do they belong? They are part of our makeup.' back

David Siegel, Understanding The DAO Attack, 'Unfortunately, while programmers were working on fixing this and other problems, an unknown attacker began using this approach to start draining The DAO of ether collected from the sale of its tokens. By Saturday, 18th June, the attacker managed to drain more than 3.6m ether into a “child DAO” that has the same structure as The DAO. The price of ether dropped from over $20 to under $13.' back

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report, 'To view the report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, you can download the report in full or download a section of the report by clicking on the links below. You can also order the Commission's authorized and official versions of the report by clicking on your preferred option in the box on the right.' back

Gaby Hinsliff, Under Theresa May the cool kids are out; age and experience are in, 'Chancellor Philip Hammond, leader of the Commons David Lidington and defence secretary Michael Fallon are all in their 60s, an age when every reshuffle is viewed with trepidation; but under a prime minister who will be 60 herself this autumn it’s the young Turks heading for the door and greyer ones moving up.' back

Inside Job (film) - Wikipedia, Inside Job (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'Inside Job (2010) is a documentary film about the late-2000s financial crisis directed by Charles H. Ferguson. The film is described by Ferguson as being about "the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption."[3] In five parts, the film explores how changes in the policy environment and banking practices helped create the financial crisis. Inside Job was well received by film critics who praised its pacing, research, and exposition of complex material. The film was screened at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May and won the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.' back

John Keane, Capitalism and Democracy [part one], 'Let’s begin with a discomforting fact often forgotten in recent years: capitalism is not ‘naturally’ the best friend of democracy. Since the early years of the nineteenth century, especially during periods of economic stagnation and mass unemployment, the relationship between capitalism and democracy has actually been a source of great social unrest, state violence and public pressures for institutional reform.' back

Jonathon Jones and Nell Fizzell, The Baton Rouge Protestor: 'A Botticelli nymph attacked by Star Wars baddies', A great photograph is a moment liberated from time. If we could see what happened before and after this beautiful stillness and hear the cacophony of yells and arguments that must have filled reality’s soundtrack at a protest in Baton Rouge against the taking of black lives, the heroic stand of Iesha L Evans would just be a fragile glimpse of passing courage. It might even be entirely lost in the rush of images and noise. Instead, Reuters photographer Jonathan Bachman was able to preserve a simple human act of quiet bravery and give it an almost religious power.' back

La Civiltà Cattolica - Wikipedia, La Civiltà Cattolica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'La Civiltà Cattolica (Italian for Catholic Civilization) is a periodical published by the Jesuits in Rome, Italy. It has been published continuously since 1850 and is among the oldest of Catholic Italian periodicals. All of the journal's articles are the collective responsibility of the entire "college" of the magazine's writers even if published under a single author's name. It is the only one to be directly revised by the Secretariat of State of the Holy See and to receive its approval before being published' back

Large Hadron Collider - Wikipedia, Large Hadron Collider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the largest, most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories' back

Leon van Hove, Von Neumann's Contributions to Quantum Theory, An essential feature of the Hilbert space formulation of quantum theory is that the most important physical quantities as position, momentum or energy are represented by unbounded hermitian operators. Since the theoretical prediction of measurements makes essential use of the spectral resolution of the operators representing the physical quantities, von Neumann was, in his very first investigation, faced with the problem of extending to the unbounded case the known spectral theory of bounded hermitian operators. By 1929 he had brought this problem to a complete solution.' back

Massimo Faggioli, A Non-Synodal Reception for a Post-Synodal Exhortation, 'Three months after the publication of Amoris laetitia ("The Joy of Love"), the reception is underway, and various commentators already are noting the wide differences in the hermeneutics of the post-synodal exhortation. If we want to identify the two main approaches, we can say that one has a rather constrained view of the text and, especially, of the two synodal gatherings. . . . The other interpretation focuses on the exhortation’s renewed emphasis on conscience as opposed to legalistic approaches to moral theology, and its acknowledgment of the need for theological and pastoral attention to new situations.' back

Noah Feldman, Lesson for Newt Gingrich: What Shariah Is (and Isn't), 'Put simply, for believing Muslims, Shariah is the ideal realization of divine justice — a higher law reflecting God’s will.' back

Stephen Long, Corporate tax minimization costs governments $US 1 trillion says accounting insider, 'The big four accounting firms have been branded as aggressive, unethical, and accused of "perpetrating the greatest tax crimes in history" by a leading corporate tax authority. At least $US1 trillion in tax revenue is lost worldwide, and $50 billion in Australia, as a result of aggressive tax minimisation schemes established by the four giant firms who audit the books of nearly all the world's major companies, said George Rozvany, a 32-year veteran of the corporate tax industry.' back

Tom Clarke, Australia is guilty of the same misconduct as China over our treatment of East Timor, '"Australia supports the right of all countries to seek to resolve disputes peacefully in accordance with international law, including UNCLOS," Bishop said in response to the South China sea dispute, before adding that adherence to international law is the foundation for peace, stability and prosperity in East Asia. These are wise words, but they will continue to ring hollow while the Australian government continues to turn its back on the independent umpire so it can continue to short-change East Timor out of billions of dollars in oil revenue.' back

Wave function collapse - Wikipedia, Wave function collapse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'In quantum mechanics, wave function collapse is said to occur when a wave function—initially in a superposition of several eigenstates—appears to reduce to a single eigenstate (by "observation"). It is the essence of measurement in quantum mechanics and connects the wave function with classical observables like position and momentum. Collapse is one of two processes by which quantum systems evolve in time; the other is continuous evolution via the Schrödinger equation.' back