Suppose I am working on a book that is a broad expansion of a survey article I wrote with a collaborator, Dr. Y, who passed away recently. I sent Y extremely early drafts of some chapters and invited Y to be a coauthor. Y gave a lot suggestions in the structure, content, and style of the book, yet Y remained vague about coauthorship (probably because he had doubts if he will live long enough). Y never said yes or no. Y never participated in the actual writing. But Y's suggestions became the high level blueprint that guided the development of the book. This draft is only about 60% done, but I'm wondering: in this case, should Y be a coauthor?
One of my advisors suddenly passed away while I was in graduate school.  We had some discussions and ideas about future publications, but he passed away before any of the work was completed.  When the work was finally completed and published, I and my co-authors were therefore presented with an ethical dilemma about how best to acknowledge his contributions to the ideas behind the paper.  Should we list him as a co-author?  Put him in the acknowledgements?  Listing him as an author would give credit for the original idea, however, we would have no way of knowing if he actually approved of—and would want his name attached to—our methods and writing.  In the end my co-authors and I decided to list him as a co-author with a footnote stating that he passed away before publication.  I’m interested to hear from others who have been in similar situations and/or suggestions on what constitutes “co-authorship” when one of one’s collaborators passes away before the publication or work is complete.
Do known-plaintext attacks exist for public key encryption? The problem:  Assume $f: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ satisfies $|f(t) - f(x)| \leq |t - x|^2$ for all $t, x$. Prove $f$ is constant.  I believe I have some intuition about why this is the case; i.e. if $t$ and $x$ are very close, ($|t - x| = \epsilon$), then $\sqrt{\epsilon}$ will converge to 0, so $|f(t) - f(x)|$ will also converge to zero if you keep taking $t$ and $x$ closer and closer to each other. However, how do I formalize this argument? Thanks. When changing fields, should I focus more on describing past research or connecting it to the new area in my statement of purpose? I want to change my field from molecular biophysics to theoretical ecology. While they are basically required some same basic background (physics, math, programming), the rest is quite irrelevant. In my current draft of this part, about a half is about this the problem and the result of the work, another half is for my contribution and what I've learnt. Having said that, should I focus less on describing the work and leave space for the thing that will be useful for the next research?  Below is copy from .     What have you already done? What problems have you solved, or at least worked on? What independent projects have you been part of? What were your key contributions? What did you learn? What did you teach the world? How do your results compare to what was already known? What original ideas are you most proud of? Be specific, technical, credible, and confident (but not arrogant). Refer the reader to your web page for more details. Have a web page with more details: preprints, project reports, source code, videos, etc. Prove $(x+y)(y+z)(x+z)≤\frac8{27}(x+y+z)^3$ The entire exercise was like $$8xyz≤(x+y)(y+z)(x+z)≤\frac8{27}(x+y+z)^3\quad x,y,z&gt;0$$  and I managed to solve (demonstrate) the first inequality (from the left) using $$\frac{x+y}2≥\sqrt{xy}$$ but I can't solve the second one. I tried several ideas but I haven't succeeded. Thanks a lot. how to count dates entries monthwise from a resultset How to control RAM / swap usage Is there a way (application) to control RAM / swap usage policy at application level.  I have some applications that I use all the time and I want them to stay in RAM all the time and there are also application that I use quite seldom and they might be thrown to swap at demand. I know that default configured windows should give me best performance but I want to check whether I can get more :).  I use windows 7. How to create a .deb file with dependency? I have a game made with the LÖVE framework and I want to package it into a .deb file so it can be easily installed by others and be easily findable through the Unity dash for example.   I also have the LÖVE framework love_0.7.2.deb which I want to be in the deb file also somehow.  Files that I have:  game_icon.png game .desktop the_game.love love_0.7.2.deb   Could someone explain to me how to do this? Execute script after specific delay using JavaScript Why are images formed? How do rays of light getting focused at a point create an image?  How are the information of object's shape and dimensions expressed as an image when light rays converge?  Is it understandable by solving wave equation for light? Any class of a nonempty $X$ generates a base for a topology on $X$. Theorem Any class $\mathcal{A}$ of subsets of a nonempty set $X$ is the subbase for a unique topology $\tau$ on $X$. That is to say, the finite intersections of members of $\mathcal{A}$ form a base for the topology $\tau$ on $X$. Example Consider $X=\{a,b,c,d\}$ Let $\mathcal{A}=\{\{a,b\},\{b,c\},\{d\}\}$ The finite intersection of members of $\mathcal{A}$ give us: $$\mathcal{B}=\{\{a,b\},\{b,c\},\{d\},\{b\},\varnothing,X\}$$  How is it true that $X \in \mathcal{B}$ ? By definition of subbase, the finite intersection of members of $\mathcal{A}$ are the members of some base $\mathcal{B}$. But for $a_i \in \mathcal{A}, \displaystyle\bigcap a_i \neq X$ for any finite intersection of $a_i$'s. Look: $\{a,b\}\cap\{b,c\}\cap \{d\} \neq \{a,b,c,d\}$ nor do any other intersection of elements of $\mathcal{B}$ result in $X$. Anybody know what's going on here? Why is $X \in \mathcal{B}$? I thought people would be working on little code projects together, but I don't see them, so here's an easy one:  Code that validates a valid US Zip Code. I know there are ZIP code databases out there, but there are still uses, like web pages, quick validation, and also the fact that zip codes keep getting issued, so you might want to use weak validation.  I wrote a little bit about zip codes in a side project on my wiki/blog:    There is also a new, weird type of zip code.     I can do the javascript code, but it would be interesting to see how many languages we can get here. Why was Count Dooku not given the title "Darth"? I don't know the exact significance of the word "Darth" in the Sith world, but I think it was a word of honor for powerful Sith. That's why Anakin was given this word in his new name.  All powerful Sith in canon had this word in their names: Darth Plagueis, Darth Bane, Darth Sidious, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, etc. As such name similarity can't be names given by their parents, I can assume they were given such words in names as a honor.   Now, look at Count Dooku... he was a powerful Sith too. So, why wasn't he given this title?    Darth word to address Dooku hasn't been used in the movies, as far as I know. If you are claiming that Darth and Lord words are same, give citations because my vocabulary rejects it. "As a beginner, I am happy that I learned a new thing."  You will recognize this as your DoReMi-s.( at 4:52)  What is the meaning of the "AS" there and when do we use that?  In depth answers would be appreciated.  Similarly:     Do I have your word as a lawman not to shoot me down like a dog in the street?    Can you explain this sentence?   Can I understand it as a lawman wouldn't shoot down people on the street or wouldn't have his word or what? filling area between 2 functions, with shading How do I change skins in minecraft pe? R-squared: X "explains" the percentage of variation of the Y values. Does axis order matter? I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 and am missing the Ubuntu Dock settings, i.e. in gnome-control-center the dock settings are blank:    I think I might be missing the "ubuntu-dock" package, but can't find this anywhere in the software centre.  Also the gnome-control-center was completely missing after the update, and I had to install this separately - not sure if this is related.  I think this is different from  because changing the type of GNOME session doesn't fix the problem. If I go for GNOME* I get no Dock settings section at all, and if I got for Ubuntu* I get the blank Dock settings section described above.  Output of apt-cache policy gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock:  rob@rob-pc:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock:   Installed: (none)   Candidate: 0.7   Version table:      0.7 500         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main amd64 Packages         500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/main i386 Packages Zooming / Focusing certain parts of a chart in latex I am using pgfplot to draw graphs in latex. Now this is the problem I am facing:  \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1] \begin{axis}[ybar,grid=major,bar width=2pt,width=8cm, height=8cm,xmin=1,xmax=540,ymin=1,ymax=240] \addplot [draw=black,fill=green]  table [x=size, y=cluster, col sep=comma] {sim-0.4-0.6.csv}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture}   It generates the following graph:    Since, I have values mainly between 0-50 on x-axis, I want to zoom there. After that, values comes around 500. S0, there are no graph points between 50 - 450. How should I do that? Rescuing/Compiling old TeX file starting with “\input amstex” I have come across an ancient (1995) LaTeX file which was (surely) once compliant, but now does not compile at all. Is there any way to rescue it?  My actual question is much more precise. I want a copy of the follow paper on the arXiv:    Downloading the pdf source produces something which looks like a document on a4 paper printed on US letter (the bottoms of some pages are cut off). However, if you download the TeX source from the arXiv, then it doesn't compile (even adding .tex, naturally). I'm using an up to date version of TeXshop on a mac. I would like a brief explanation of the following command line:  grep -i 'abc' content 2&gt;/dev/null