This collection traces the history of seven Dutch sugar plantations in Guiana (the colony of Surinam) through nearly a century of major developments, including the Napoleonic Wars and the transition from a slave to a free labor economy. The records consist of correspondence regarding the administration of the plantations in the Surinam colony, a...
Created:
1770-12-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.
The fundamental trade-off in coding theory is the onebetween the rate of the code (a measure of amount of redundancyintroduced) and the amount of errors that can be corrected. In thistalk, I will describe an explicit construction of codes that achievesthe optimal trade-off between these parameters, for a worst-case noise model where the channel ...
Creator:
Guruswami, Venkatesan (University of Washington)
Created:
2007-04-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Unlike the ordinary chromatic number, the list chromatic number necessarilygrows with the average degree. Indeed, Alon (2000) proved it grows with thelogarithm of the average degree. Recently, the same has been shown to betrue for uniform hypergraphs, by means of the 'container method': we sketchhow this works. The question then arises as to the...
Creator:
Thomason, Andrew (University of Cambridge)
Created:
2014-09-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
This collection traces the history of seven Dutch sugar plantations in Guiana (the colony of Surinam) through nearly a century of major developments, including the Napoleonic Wars and the transition from a slave to a free labor economy. The records consist of correspondence regarding the administration of the plantations in the Surinam colony, a...
Created:
1742-03-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, James Ford Bell Library.