What is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence. The current obsession with rankings and league tables has perpetuated inequality and is preventing social mobility. This book shows how universities can – and should - respond to societal challenges and promote positive social change.
In No Lesser Place, professor Chris Brink, rector of Stellenbosch University since 2002, gives ? in his personal capacity ? an overview of and commentary on the main arguments of the taaldebat. He does so against the background of the historical and current position of Afrikaans at Stellenbosch and also outlines his own position in this regard.
The calculus of relations has been an important component of the development of logic and algebra since the middle of the nineteenth century, when Augustus De Morgan observed that since a horse is an animal we should be able to infer that the head of a horse is the head of an animal. For this, Aristotelian syllogistic does not suffice: We require relational reasoning. George Boole, in his Mathematical Analysis of Logic of 1847, initiated the treatment of logic as part of mathematics, specifically as part of algebra. Quite the opposite conviction was put forward early this century by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead in their Principia Mathematica (1910 - 1913): that mathematics was essentially grounded in logic. Logic thus developed in two streams. On the one hand algebraic logic, in which the calculus of relations played a particularly prominent part, was taken up from Boole by Charles Sanders Peirce, who wished to do for the "calculus of relatives" what Boole had done for the calculus of sets. Peirce's work was in turn taken up by Schroder in his Algebra und Logik der Relative of 1895 (the third part of a massive work on the algebra of logic). Schroder's work, however, lay dormant for more than 40 years, until revived by Alfred Tarski in his seminal paper "On the calculus of binary relations" of 1941 (actually his presidential address to the Association for Symbolic Logic).
This book provides a synthesis of four versions of program semantic--srelational semantics, predicate transformer semantics, information systems, and domain theory--showing, through an exhaustive case study analysis, that it is possible to do back-and-forth translation from any of these versions of program semantics into any of the others, and demonstrating that while there are many variations of each, in principle they may be thought of as intertranslatable.
On paper, it may be the closest run thing the markets have ever seen. But it could all end in disaster for Brownovia well before next Spring. Such looks to be the correct view for investors to adopt ahead of a testing Winter for New Labour, now in its death throes. The next few months will see Chancellor Brown making his final bid to land the UK Premiership, parachuting into No 10 without a hitch. But the Chancellor must work his way across a temporal divide which at this distance seems impassable without a rude buffeting by events. The Chancellor will be operating in market conditions which now include a frenzied UK asset boom growing more turbulent by the hour; a heavily over-valued; and a Bank of England, which by any realistic criterion lost the plot years ago, indeed jettisoned it in a fit of pique. The Chancellor, metaphorically, is preparing to attempt the impossible, the Flying Triple Somersault. High up in the roof of the stadium, he is now to be observed stretching out his white tights, resining up his wrists and hands, moving like a god. Like all great trapeze artists, he is working without a net. More disturbingly, he is also working without a catcher on the other side of the Big Top...! No way back from that one, once it starts.... This is a moment of great political drama for the UK, occurring perhaps once every generation. If Brown fails, he will have destroyed himself; his party; the lead UK financial institution; and most likely the UK economy itself. And how did the UK find itself in such an extraordinary position? Good Trader V sets the scene.
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