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Date submitted2009-09-26
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Date accepted2009-11-23
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Date published2010-06-25
Way philosophy courses are considered essential at american technical universities
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- M. I. Mikeshin
The paper comprises of some examples of philosophical courses delivered at three US institutes of technology, topics considered attractive for students, and professors’ answers to the questions why and how the students of these institutes should study various philosophical problems.
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Date submitted2008-11-16
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Date accepted2009-01-15
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Date published2009-12-11
The USA mineral-resources sector development in the globalization epoch
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- A. A. Maltsev
There are revealed the peculiarities of America’s mineral-resources sector at the modern stage of development. The influence of globalization processes on the US mineral-resources sector evolution is considered. The strategy and tactics of US mineral-resources sector state positioning policy in new management frameworks are being scrutinized.
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Date submitted1951-07-01
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Date accepted1951-09-16
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Date published1952-12-23
On the calculation of eigenvalues by the method of steepest descent
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- M. Sh. Birman
L. V. Kantorovich proposed a new direct method for solving problems of the calculus of variations, which he called the steepest descent method. As L. V. Kantorovich showed, the method can be successfully used for the approximate solution of linear functional equations in a Hilbert space. In addition, L. V. Kantorovich applied the steepest descent method to the problem of eigenvalues of completely continuous operators. In application to this problem, the method consists of the following. In this note, a proof of the convergence of the process is given without the assumption of closeness of x0 to x*. In addition, a comparison of the steepest descent method with the known iterative method for calculating eigenvalues is made, and a multi-step version of the method under consideration is investigated. In what follows, the assumption that m = 0 is not used.