Search for dissertations about: "irrational"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 swedish dissertations containing the word irrational.

  2. 1. The Alevi-Bektasi Legacy: Problems of Acquisition and Explanation

    Author : Ilhan Ataseven; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Teologi; Theology; Religion; Science; Irrational; Rational; Bektasi; Alevi; Turkey; Sufism;

    Abstract : Mystics and amateur politicians in the margin of Turkish society. The specific case of marginalisation in the specific context of my choice provides a wealth of details to be accounted for. All details taken together are real life itself and can thus not be accounted for in a book. READ MORE

  4. 2. Driving Violations : Investigating Forms of Irrational Rationality

    Author : Sonja Forward; Lars Åberg; Dianne Parker; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; theory of planned behaviour; driving violations; risk-taking; speeding; dangerous overtaking; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Abstract : Several aspects contribute to road crashes and one important part is the ‘human factor’. This information is interesting but insufficient unless we also try to understand what is meant by the term. READ MORE

  5. 3. Digital lines, Sturmian words, and continued fractions

    Author : Hanna Uscka-Wehlou; Christer Oscar Kiselman; Maciej Klimek; Gunilla Borgefors; Mikael Passare; Damien Jamet; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; digital geometry; digital line; hierarchy of runs; combinatorics on words; Sturmian word; upper mechanical word; characteristic word; irrational slope; continued fraction; Gauss map; fixed point; Discrete mathematics; Diskret matematik; matematik; Mathematics;

    Abstract : In this thesis we present and solve selected problems arising from digital geometry and combinatorics on words. We consider digital straight lines and, equivalently, upper mechanical words with positive irrational slopes a... READ MORE

  6. 4. Situated Freedom : Exploring the Aesthetic Practice of Rem Koolhaas/OMA

    Author : Katja Hogenboom; Helena Mattsson; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Helene Frichot; Robert Somol; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Situated Freedom; Assemblage; Fabulation; Any-Space-Whatever; Irrational Cut; Time-Image; Montrage; Non-Object; Theatre of Variation; Power of the False; Politics of Aesthetics; Messy Method; Aesthetic Practice; Rem Koolhaas; OMA; China Central Television Headquarters; Seattle Central Library; Villa dall’Ava; Maison à Bordeaux.; Arkitekturens historia och teori; History and Theory of Architecture;

    Abstract : The thesis advocates that architecture can, as an operative medium, situate freedom. Following the work of Michel Foucault, the thesis develops an argument for an emancipatory endeavor, termed “situated freedom in architecture. READ MORE

  7. 5. Computational dynamics – real and complex

    Author : Anna Belova; Warwick Tucker; Denis Gaidashev; Àlex Haro Provinciale; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Continued fractions; Generating functions; Rotation numbers; Rigorous computations; Interval analysis; Interval arithmetic; Multipliers; Quadratic map; Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation; Mathematics; Matematik;

    Abstract : The PhD thesis considers four topics in dynamical systems and is based on one paper and three manuscripts.In Paper I we apply methods of interval analysis in order to compute the rigorous enclosure of rotation number. READ MORE