Essays about: "Archimedean Point"

Found 2 essays containing the words Archimedean Point.

  1. 1. The Engineering Person : Arendt and an Anthropology of Engineering Ethics

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Philip Bärring; [2021]
    Keywords : Arendt; The Human Condition; Anthropology; Ethnography; Philosophy of Engineering; Engineering Ethics; Intersubjectivity; Process Philosophy; Earth Alienation; Archimedean Point;

    Abstract : In this thesis Hannah Arendt’s theories of science and technology are applied in an ethnographic study of engineering ethics. Seeking to gain further understanding of Arendt’s thoughts, her concepts of The Archimedean Point and Earth Alienation is applied in interviews with engineering students in Sweden’s Uppsala University. READ MORE

  3. 2. Statistical analysis of empirical pairwise copulas for the S&P 500 stocks

    University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Richard Koivusalo; [2012]
    Keywords : Tail dependence; Tail concentration function; Measure of similarity; Copula; Archimedean; Kendall s tau; Spearman s rho; Gaussian; t copula; Clayton;

    Abstract : It is of great importance to find an analytical copula that will represent the empirical lower tail dependence. In this study, the pairwise empirical copula are estimated using data of the S&P 500 stocks during the period 2007-2010. READ MORE