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"Therapy dogs at Mugar Library" May 2017 poster
These posters were made by the Mugar Greene Scholars to advertise a destressing opportunity for students, which includes therapy dogs
"Mary Baker Eddy Library" -- libraries outside of the BU bubble posters
An advertisement to visit the Maparium at the Mary Baker Eddy Library in order to escape the BU "bubble.
Free Speech 2018: Free At Last sculpture
Illustration of the Free at Last sculpture on Marsh Plaza at Boston University
07. Richard Richards is a Gay Scientist
A little recognized and under-appreciated fact about the august Richard Richards is that he is a gay scientist. I know what you may be thinkingâRichardâs never shagged dudes, and if he has, itâs shitty to out him in an essay thatâs meant to honor him. Thatâs strictly his business. Or you may be thinking that that Richard identifies as a philosopher, not a physicist, biologist, or even (egads!) a psychologist. As far as I know, you would be right in both casesâand it would be terrible to call him out--despite the fact that this will hardly rise to the level of an essay.
No, what I mean is that Richard Richards practices the sort of approach to philosophy that Nietzsche prescribes in The Gay Science. Now, I wonât pretend to know fuckall about Nietzscheâbut thatâs okay because there are roughly 7,500 budding philosophy majors lurking in coffee shops, craft breweries, and organic grocery stores around the country whoâve got him figured out and would be delighted to expound on my ignorance. If you are genuinely curious about whether Iâve got Nietzsche right, ask one of them. Or read some Nietzsche. In any case, Iâm not entirely convinced that getting philosophers ârightâ is the point; rather, good philosophers plunder brilliant ideas from better philosophers or scientists, looting those concepts for their own endsâjust ask Schopenhauerâand I think Richard might agree with this (c.f., his devotion to Provine and incongruity theory). [excerpt
"Biased Sources? Ghosts" Library Horror Stories posters
These posters were created to make students aware of library resources during the month of October's "Library Horror Stories" media campaign
New Lower Bounds for van der Waerden Numbers Using Distributed Computing
This paper provides new lower bounds for van der Waerden numbers. The number
is defined to be the smallest integer for which any -coloring
of the integers admits monochromatic arithmetic progression of
length ; its existence is implied by van der Waerden's Theorem. We exhibit
-colorings of that do not contain monochromatic arithmetic
progressions of length to prove that . These colorings are
constructed using existing techniques. Rabung's method, given a prime and a
primitive root , applies a color given by the discrete logarithm base
mod and concatenates copies. We also used Herwig et al's
Cyclic Zipper Method, which doubles or quadruples the length of a coloring,
with the faster check of Rabung and Lotts. We were able to check larger primes
than previous results, employing around 2 teraflops of computing power for 12
months through distributed computing by over 500 volunteers. This allowed us to
check all primes through 950 million, compared to 10 million by Rabung and
Lotts. Our lower bounds appear to grow roughly exponentially in . Given that
these constructions produce tight lower bounds for known van der Waerden
numbers, this data suggests that exact van der Waerden Numbers grow
exponentially in with ratio asymptotically, which is a new conjecture,
according to Graham.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure. This version reflects new results and reader
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Mugar Summer Book Club 2017: Timeline
A poster promoting summer reading for Mugar Summer Book Club 2017
Dense ideals and cardinal arithmetic
From large cardinals we show the consistency of normal, fine,
-complete -dense ideals on for
successor . We explore the interplay between dense ideals, cardinal
arithmetic, and squares, answering some open questions of Foreman
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