Schild's Ladder is a 2002 science fiction novel by Australian author Greg Egan. The book derives its name from Schild's ladder, a construction in differential...
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theory of general relativity, and differential geometry more generally, Schild's ladder is a first-order method for approximating parallel transport of a vector...
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development. Parallel transport can be discretely approximated by Schild's ladder, which takes finite steps along a curve, and approximates Levi-Civita...
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Thekla Schild (1890–1991), German architect Schild's ladder, in the theory of general relativity, and differential geometry more generally Schild regression...
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Dan Christensen. Spin networks also play a central role in his novel Schild's Ladder released the same year. In 2014, Egan conjectured a generalization...
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disregarding slowdown in the process. Egan's later novels Diaspora and Schild's Ladder deal with related issues from other perspectives. The plot of Permutation...
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University, Schild introduced an important mathematical construction now known as Schild's Ladder, which is used in differential geometry. Schild clarified...
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(1995) Allen Steele, The Tranquillity Alternative (1996) Greg Egan, Schild's Ladder (2002) Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice (2005) Cixin Liu, Remembrance...
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the same universe as Egan's short story "Oracle" and Egan's novel Schild's Ladder. In 2003, Ben, after some hesitation, intervenes in a kitchen hand...
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Dynamical system Memetics Metastability Ostwald's Rule of Stages Prion Schild's Ladder Self-replicating machine Self-replication Strangelet#Potential propagation...
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