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Atlantis: the comeback

Atlantis, the first novel by David Gibbins, released in 2005, appeared in paperback. Presented as the Da Vinci Code a new generation, "this historical thriller he deserves a prominent place in our libraries?

It has been written ink, the famous lost continent! Say that the origin of the legend dates back more than twenty centuries, appearing for the first time in the writings of Plato: "A large island beyond Gibraltar and named Atlantis. "We believed the myth repressed in the depths of consciousness and imagination ... but no! We're back
plunged once again, in the heart of this mystery to the delight of "Atlantomanes.
The story begins in two almost simultaneous discoveries: the discovery of a gold disk, dotted with strange characters in a wreck and a papyrus discovered in an Egyptian mummy, mentioning the name of the famous city. And the story gets carried away: meet the various experts and witnesses, discovery, deciphering the writing, marking the site where the remains of the oldest civilization in the world and explore the site says. That happiness ... almost! It is true that one gets carried away by the explanations and theories of other characters, but there is a catch, and a famous! "You can forget Atlantis yet. It just fell on a Russian nuclear submarine. "

And here's how to turn an adventure story in attempt to bestseller: take a story as simple as it is, and add arms trafficking, espionage (the case) or a sham political Damn! Voila! Yet it was not going too bad ... alas! We even ended up wondering if the novel's title is well chosen since the discovery of the legendary city of Atlantis does a chapter, the twelfth of the way! while exploring the old Russian submarine sunk in and takes five without really keep us in suspense!
Then off again heading for a temple to find Atlantis sixty pages later in confrontation with the villain-who-will-steal-the-nuclear-missile submarine, the and the other is that the - surprise - a father of female members of the expedition member who is, moreover, eyes soft hero. No comment. Seventy pages later, we exit the villain and plunges into the heart of the temple for a millennium on a high finish on an interesting theory of the author as to the origin of the destruction of Atlantis.
was almost not like reading two novels in one, and it's not the bonus!

And writing in?
Mystery? Mouthing, the first discoveries performed and the revelation of why the destruction of the Atlantean civilization, are written very simply. It feels to read the writings of a professor who loves his art, archeology, and willing to reveal everything, so many details are crisp. No doubt about it, David Gibbins is Doctor of Archaeology. And then there's the rest, too many technical explanations and ultra soporific that make reading difficult and very boring. "The mask was helmet enriched silicon which followed closely the shape of the face. Once ready, Costas Katya helped to put his backpack, a polypropylene aerodynamic equipment which included a compact rebreather oxygen, a two-stage regulator and a titanium reinforced tribouteilles filled to eight hundred times the ambient pressure. The bottles were UMI ultralight and compact, lighter than the old block monobouteille the aqualung and ergonomic. Therefore, they realize it's more volume. "Yes, yes! Or " What's that white film? she asked. All surfaces were covered with a layer of light similar to ice. (...) It's a rushed, "said Costas. This is probably the result of an ionization reaction between metal and carbon dioxide, whose level rose after discontinuation of the absorbers, silencers. "Thanks Costas!
One wonders who is to blame the writer for not knowing where to put the drop-in his explanations or publisher, for not having asked the author to calm his excitement and to have left the issue passages they believe out of a syllabus Polytechnique.

It will be understood, Atlantis is not what one might call a novel a must read. However, discoveries of gold record and papyrus were far from being uninteresting and the theory of the author on the end of the Atlantean civilization is very innovative and thought-provoking. It is unfortunate that David Gibbins will be amused to burden the story with both his technical explanations with political intrigue bitch. A novel recommended, therefore, only to fans of lost civilizations or the fans of ancient myth of Plato.

JW

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Examples in the theory of fixed point.

Reminder:

Let (E, d) a metric space complet.D is a subset of ET

farm is an application of D DT said:

i) an isometry if d (Tx, Ty) = d (x, y) dxd.


ii) contracting if d (Tx, Ty)

iii) contractive if d (Tx, Ty)

Examples.

I. Applicaion isometric

Applications that have no fixed point:

1) E = D is a Banach space and Tx = x + a (a in E-{0})

2) Let Banach space C (0) = {x =

(x (n)): lim x (n) = 0 when n -> infinity}) <=d(x,y) sur DxD.

equipped with the usual norm: II ( x (n)) II = sup Ix (n) I. < d(x,y), x different de y.

B denotes the closed unit ball of C (0).

T is an application of B in B defined by:

T ({x (n )})=( 1, x (0), x (1 )..., x (n )...)

It is obvious that T is an isometry and the only

fixed T is the vector

(1,1,1 ,..., 1 ,...) not owned

C (0), but it is al (infinite) space

of bounded sequences.

3) Example1-Edelstein (1964)

Exercise.

Let the Banach space C _ {0} with the usual standard.

T is a mapping defined on C:

Tx = y or {x = x_ {n}} and {y = y_ {n}} with

y_ {n} = [exp (2i \\ pi / n !)] x_ {n} - (-1) ^ {n} [exp (2i \\ pi / n !) -1]

n = 1,2, ...

i) Verify that y belongs to C

ii) Show that T is an isometry on C.

iii) For (0) = (0,0, ....), Show that {T ^ {k} (0)} is bounded in C

and that lim ^ {T} k! (0) = 0 ,

when k ---> infinity.

iv) Show that T has no fixed point in C.

4.Exemple2-Edelstein (1964)

Exercise.

Let the space of the suites ^ {2} with the usual standard:

IXI = I (x_ {0}, x_ {1}, ...) I = (sigma (k = 0 to infinity) ix_ {k} I) ^ {1 / 2}

known that (s ^ {2}, II) is a Hilbert space.

Let T be a mapping defined on ^ {2}:

Tx = y or {y = y_ {n}) with y_ {n} = [exp (2i \\ pi / n!)] (X_ {n } -1) +1

n = 1,2, ...

i) Show that the ^ {2} is stable T.

ii) Show that T is an isometry on ^ {2}

iii) Check that:

IT ^ {k} (0) I ^ {2} = 4 (Sigma (k = 1 to infinity ) sin ^ {2} (\\ pi k / n!)

Deduce that IT k! ^ {} (0) I ---> 0, when k ---> infinity, and if

Q_ {k} = (1 / 2) Sigma (j = 1 k) (2jk)! So

IT ^ {Q_ {k}} (0) I ---> infinity, as k ---> infinity

iii) Show that T has no fixed point in {^ 2}

NOTE.The Edelstein two examples above show that

the result of the same author (see 03/06/2007 post)

is not valid if T is an isometry.

5. The cons-instance of D. Alspach (important)

At the open question:

Let E be a Banach espcace and K is a subset of E

nonempty convex and weakly compact.T: K --- -> K a

application contractante.T she admits a fixed point?

Alspach replied negatively by the following example


Exercise.

Notation.I (f, [0,1]) = the integral of f on [0,1]

Let I = [0,1] and E = L ^ {1} (I) space integrable functions on I

, equipped with the usual standard.

We consider the set:

K = {f \\ in E: I (f, [0,1]) = 1, 0

T is an application defined on K by:


(Tm) ( t) = min {2f (2t), 2}, if 0

(Tf) (t) = max {2f (2t-1) -2.0}, if 1 / 2

Show that

i ) K is convex and weakly compact.

ii) K is stable by T.

iii) T is an isometry. <=f<= 2] }

iv) T has no fixed point in K.

evidente.Voir The proof is not, for example,
[Geobel-Kirk] (Message References 02/02/2007) <=t<=1/2]

< t<=1]




II.Applications Contracting.

i) Applications Contracting admit fixed points:

6) E = IR and T = sin.

T is a nonexpansive (check)

and 0 is a unique fixed point of T. (Justify

the existence of fixed point, taking D = [-1,1].

then shows that this fixed point is unique).

7) The space C (0) and the unit closed ball B

are defined in Example 2). Let T

application of B in B defined by:

T ({x (n )})=( x (0) ,1-Ix (0) I x (1 )..., x (n )...)

It is obvious that T is contractive (check).

As lim x (n) = 0, and if x = Tx, then x (1) = x (2 )=...= 0.

It follows that Ix (0) I = 1, and Fix (T) = {e (1),-e (1)

or e (1) = (1,0,0 ,..., 0 ,...)

Fix (T) discontinue.Remarquer that the space C (0), provided

from the norm, is not strictly convex.

(See message 02/23/2008)

ii) Applications Contracting admit no fixed points:

8) E = IR and D = [-2, -1] U [1,2 ]. T is an application of

D in D, defined by:

Tx = 1 if x belongs to [-2, -1]

=- 1 if x belongs to [1,2]

It is obvious that T is contractive and does not allow a point

fixe.On remark that the domain D is closed,

terminal and non-convex.

III) nonexpansive

Applications Contracting which do not admit fixed points:

9) E = IR, IR = D ^ {+} and Tx = \\ sqrt {x ^ {2} +1}

10) D = E = IR and Tx = log (1 + exp (x))

11) E = IR, IR = D ^ {+} and Tx = x +1 / (x +1)

12) E = C ([0,1] IR) is the space of continuous functions

[0,1] in IR with the norm u:

is easy to verify that

T is contractive, the only fixed point

T is the discontinuous function x (t) = 0 for 0



T has no fixed point in D.

13) Exercise

Let E be a countable set whose points are

Notes (n), n = 1,2 ,.... We equip E of the distance defined by:

d (a (p ), a (p)) = 0 and d (a (p), a (q)) = 1 + (1 / p) + (1 / q)

if p is different from q.
<= x(t)<= x(1)=1}.Alors D est
i) Check that d is a metric on E and (E, d)

is complete.

ii) Let T be the mapping of E into E defined by

T (a (p)) = a (p +1).

Show that T is contractive and Fix (T) is empty.

14) Exercise.
<= t<1 et x(1)=1.
Let B be the closed unit ball of the space of sequences C (0)

(see Example 2). Applicaction T is a C (0) in

C (0) such that T (e ( n)) = (1-2 ^ {- (n +1)} e (n +1), n> = 0, where {e (n)}

is the canonical basis of C (0). Let

U (x) = 1 / 2 (1 + IIxII) e (0) + T (x).

Show that U is contractive in B and B Fix (U) is empty.

IV) strictly contracting Applications .

15) Exercise.

Show that the cos function is strictly

Contracting of [-1,1] in [-1,1].

Calculate the fixed point.

16) Let the function Tx = x / 2] 0,1]] 0,1].

It is obvious that T is strictly contracting

but has no fixed point and the field n is not

farm.

v) Applications of the compact type (or alpha-compact).

17) is the function x (t) = t ^ {2} [0,1] [0,1].

Fix (x) = {0,1}

18) is the function x (t) = t ITI [-1,1] in [-1,1].

Fix (x) = {-1,0,1}

19) Let (E, II) an area designated Banach.B

the closed unit ball.

T is a mapping from B to B defined by:

T (x) = xixi.

Fix (T) = {0} U {x: Ixi = 1}.


Note.

The theorem explains the existence of Brouwer fixed points

in examples 15) and 16) by cons,

the same theorem explains the existence of fixed points,

in Example 17), where E is finite dimensional.

is found that, in these examples, the uniqueness of the fixed point

is not guaranteed.

20.Soient IR ^ (n) Euclidean space and S

sphere (= {x in IR ^ (n): IXI = 1}). Let the mapping T of S in

S defined by Tx =- x, then the fixed point can

T is 0 outside S.

(S is not convex).

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ROD THE TV

Successor to a short series of OAV (Original Video Animation) and the storyline rich in references (Beethoven, bassinet, ...) ROD THE TV plunges us into a world where reality and classic literature overlap with finesse.

ROD (Read Or Dream) is an original series and surprising. The first images are already giving a good overview of the mood and style chosen and intended by the author Hideyuki Kurata. The generic opens with a silhouette of a woman who reminds undoubtedly one of Charlie's Angels, a cult series of the late 70s, by also features three heroines brave and sentimental. This generic is rather well done. The author manages to alternate between several different styles offering viewers passages of action, calmer moments, interspersed drawings rather sexy.

The theme of the paper used as a weapon directly attracts attention. What could be more banal and inoffensive as a sheet of paper? But that has never cut with it? Added to this, charismatic and well-drawn characters, a script full of action and sensitivity and especially the final scene very interesting. Imagine London where the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Herbert Orson Wells merged to develop the kingdom in the taste of a nascent leader: The Gentleman .

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A big "Віго Moртэнсэн" for a great movie



















"Віго Moртэнсэн" Vigo Mortensen in Russian, is on view from David Cronenberg's latest film: Eastern Promises ( The Promises ), a dark and violent thriller about the middle of the Russian gangs in London. The actor really look the part.

Anna, a midwife finds the diary of a young Russian girl who dies in delivery. Seeking to regain the child's family, she came across an old man, owner of a Russian restaurant. Soon, Anna (played by the lovely Naomi Watts) realizes that the old wise to appearances, is nothing but a Russian mafia boss. His driver and a man of dirty jobs, Nikolai (Vigo Mortensen) is balanced between the beautiful nurse and his loyalty to the gang.Kirill (Vincent Cassel), the son of the head is considered by most as his best friend. Gradually, Anna puts her entourage in danger by continuing to grind around the world of the Mafia Russian-londienne.
Note first that David Cronenberg is equal to itself by signing a movie monstrous, while intensity. There is not to say after American Gangs ter last month, we're really spoiled side gangster films, at the end of 2007. The actors add value to this story already well screened at the base. Vigo Mortensen achiever in the gang's dirty work, is simply cold in this movie: the head, accent, grinning, everything is there .. It looks like Putin! Vincent Cassel is just as good: you'd think he always spoke Russian. It shows once again the full extent of his talent and he seems to be the new little darling of the French American Cinéman (After his roles in Ocean's Twelve and its sequel). Now for some serious (and increase our chances with the bellissima Monica Bellucci), he could remain in this role all his life, we believe he was born like that as well stick his head in character: a boor Soiffard, hungry for violence and alcohol.
final note, it must be emphasized that the final scene, a wonderful vision and violence while nudity is really worth more than a visit to both guys than girls! Good movie! The trailer

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The two worlds: the messiahs Poelvoorde plays

Marathon Benoit Poelvoorde boots on the ground running with the movie The Worlds followed in Cowboy , Hikers in Saint-Tropez and the future French blockbuster of the year 2008: Asterix at the Olympic Games . Attention to the risk of indigestion for those who do not support it! For her first role in a film fantasy, our national actor shows himself fitter than ever. Too bad the show does not live up to his talent ...

In a role tailor-made, Benoit Poelvoorde embodies a paintings conservator torch whose life collapses overnight: after have recovered completely flooded his studio and lost his job, his wife told him she suddenly leaves him for another. Completely destroyed and lost, he fled with his parents. It is in their kitchen when the man finds himself mysteriously drawn into the soil. Through time and space, he lands in a world where a primitive tribe primitive cannibal prisoner of a tyrant and his army, sees him as the messiah who will free the last of oppression.

Say it now, this film will not be remembered as a comic masterpiece. If the crazy idea given by the scenario works quite well, it is not sufficiently exploited the length by director Daniel Cohen lays a show that we lacked flavor and excitement. Fortunately, a masterful Benoît Poelvoorde shows the extent of his talent as a comedian while feasting on our delicious spicy replicas and cynical.

Like most contemporary films produced in France involves a large public Both Worlds is a super-production to Hollywood where the sauce is never boring, sure, but where the lack of ambition and depth is obvious. Poelvoorde Without this film would be passed directly to oblivion, just like all the films of Patrick Sebastien. If you want to relax your brain temporarily abandoned at the entrance of the cinema, or simply if you're a fan of the actor Namur, then ruez you immediately into cinemas to see this movie. If you want to ride the mechanical, cons, go your way without looking back.




Hitman: history of "gunfights videogame"

Hitman is the new adaptation of a series Video Game global success. Armed with a large budget, this supercharged thriller is a sequel of murder without any flavor scenario based on a metro ticket.

History is the most basic of the first to the last second: Agent 47, a professional killer scrubs everything in its path is found itself at the center of a mysterious contract where the CIA, FBI and Interpol even come into play. It ducks everywhere for ninety minutes while the story runs out of steam in less time than Carlos to run a hundred yards! Timothy Olyphant
embodies without conviction Agent 47 in a venture modeled on the adventures of James Bond and Jason Bourne. Produced by EuropaCorp (the company of Luc Besson) and directed by Xavier Gens, a neophyte French, this movie is like all other adaptations of video games: a big fat juicy turnip. Since 1992 and the release of Super Mario Bros. , the American and European film studios have realized that the adaptations of video games to cinema represented a tremendous financial windfall and virtually inexhaustible. The gamers have always dreamed of seeing their favorite virtual characters on the big screen. If their wishes were fulfilled, the results are very poor and often ridiculous, movies proposing only miserable scenarios where the objective is simply to empty the pockets of fans of video games. While talented filmmakers fail to resonate to their different ideas from producers, it is regrettable that they do not seem to take into account that profitable projects and poor. The law of money is everywhere, even in the cinema, and pigeons are the spectators who empty their pockets for films without personality. Unfortunately, things are far from changing monsters seen the scores achieved by this kind of movie. For those wishing to taste the joys of a genuine thriller that departs from the beaten track blockbusters, rush on The Promises (see review), the new masterpiece by David Cronenberg.

JD