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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"mersenne"”.
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Descartes' Letters to Pere marin Mersenne, Le Minime, on the Science of Sound and Music, 1629-40
… music and the science of sound raised by Marin Mersenne, the renowned French music theorist and scientific thinker. Mersenne corresponded extensively with men prominent in scientific and musical circles both in France and throughout Europe: Giovanni Doni, Isaac Beeckman, André Villiers, Pierre …
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Girard Desargues, the architectural and perspective geometry: a study in the rationalization of figure
… As a friend of Rene Descartes and Marin Mersenne, Desargues participated in the development of the mechanistic worldview which accompanied the emergence of experimental science and the renewed interest in mathematics and geometry as axiomatic, deductive systems. This dissertation examines …
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Evaluation of alternative discrete-event simulation experimental methods
… of the time. Similar results were obtained for Mersenne Twister and Descriptive Sampling.Descriptive Samnpling was found to provide the best samples and was less susceptible to errorsin the forecast of the required sample size. A method of determining the run length of the simulation that would …
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Geometry and light in the architecture of Guarino Guarini
… Paris is represented by the Minim Father Marin Mersenne who depended on his friends Descartes and Hobbes. The light-encylopaedia and geometry of Father Athanasius Kircher S.J. is a vital component, complemented by the remarkable mathematical imagery of Mario Bettini S.J., a key authority for …
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Regarding Descartes' meditations as meditational
… we will examine the relevance of Marin Mersenne's recently rediscovered treatise L'usage de la raison (1623). This work exhibits features of an Augustinian style of religious meditation and it is a text which can be easily connected to Descartes.
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Hardware acceleration of Monte Carlo-based simulations
… Latin Hypercube core and a high performance Mersenne Twister generator. Research results in this field demonstrate that random number generation is ideal for hardware acceleration, as an isolated core or within bigger accelerators. Meanwhile, the second objective has dealt with the …
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Robust and reliable hardware accelerator design through high-level synthesis
System-on-chip design is becoming increasingly complex as technology scaling enables more and more functionality on a chip. This scaling-driven complexity has resulted in a variety of reliability and validation challenges including logic bugs, hot spots, wear-out, and soft errors. To make matters …