He says in the page 114 of his autobiography that he was responsible for the null set symbol ( Ø ) and it came from the Norwegian alphabet, with which he alone among the Bourbaki group was familiar.

In many cultures, the fox appears in folklore as a symbol of cunning and trickery, or as a familiar animal possessed of magic powers.

The logo of the Judean People's Front, designed by Terry Gilliam, was a Star of David with a small line added to each point so it resembled a swastika, most familiar in the West as the symbol of the anti-Semitic Nazi movement.

The romanticised idea of the Vikings constructed in scholarly and popular circles in northwestern Europe in the nineteenth and early 20th centuries was a potent one, and the figure of the Viking became a familiar and malleable symbol in different contexts in the politics and political ideologies of 20th-century Europe.

The Eye of Providence had been a well-known classical symbol of the deity since at least the Renaissance, which Du Simitiere was familiar with.

Often, he is mentioned mostly as a symbol that the artist is familiar with the works of classic writers in the struggle against colonialism.

St Hugh carries a model of Lincoln Cathedral, which would have been very familiar to Elizabeth Wordsworth, and has his other hand resting on the head of a swan, probably the famous swan of Stow, although the swan is also a symbol of purity.

Briers is also a familiar voice actor, with numerous commercials, including adverts for the Midland Bank in which he was the voice of the company's Griffin symbol, and the animated children's series Roobarb ( 1974 ), Noah and Nelly in ... SkylArk ( 1976 ) and Bob the Builder ( 2005 ) to his credit.

If the organism is split and stained, its characteristic pattern resembles the familiar " smiley face " symbol.

The bull is a symbol of Zeus and indeed the labrys is associated with an archaic symbol of the thunder deity whom Zeus and others become as storm gods wielding their thunder weapons and are found in familiar motifs of Indo-European mythology.

As a symbol of the eternal unity of all things, the cycle of birth and death from which the alchemist sought release and liberation, it was familiar to the alchemist / physician Sir Thomas Browne.

When the associative law is expressed in its familiar form, one lets some symbol between two variables represent a binary operation, thus:

This latter group of researchers studying chimpanzee communication through symbol recognition ( keyboard ) as well as through the use of sign language ( gestural ), are on the forefront of communicative breakthroughs in the study of animal language, and they are familiar with their subjects on a first name basis: Sarah, Lana, Kanzi, Koko, Sherman, Austin and Chantek.

Mera was an archaeologist who was familiar with the Zia sun symbol found at Zia Pueblo on a 19th century pot.

In conclusion, the staggering number of articles that have been written about Sohrab Sepehri is the symbol of new generation ’ s attempts to find the ideal ideology and view toward life and to become familiar with who they are.

The choice of the Golden Fleece of Georgian Kingdom of Colchis as the symbol of a Christian order caused some controversy, not so much because of its pagan context, which could be incorporated in chivalric ideals, as in the Nine Worthies, but because the feats of Jason, familiar to all, were not without causes of reproach, expressed in anti-Burgundian terms by Alain Chartier in his Ballade de Fougères referring to Jason as " Who, to carry off the fleece of Colchis, was willing to commit perjury.

The VC-25 " Air Force One " is a prominent symbol of the American presidency and its power ; with the White House and presidential seal, it is one of the most familiar presidential symbols.

( Certain prints of Superman # 75 contained a black armband with the familiar " S " symbol adorning it.

Often imitated or parodied, it is a familiar symbol of American patriotism

Goddard's campaign symbol, the Arizona roadrunner, became familiar throughout the state, and it helped bolster his reputation as a man of energy who got things done.

In the interrogation room, Lindsey is also baffled by Angel ’ s recent actions, but he is familiar with Wesley ’ s symbol when it's shown to him.

The familiar sight of the Bat symbol in the sky prompts cheers from most of the citizens of Gotham.

His " Prayer-book ," which was made familiar by the many extracts quoted from it by the liturgical writers of the Middle Ages, and which served as the model for Saadia's and Maimonides ' own prayer rituals, was published complete for the first time in Warsaw, in the year 1865, by N. N. Coronel, under the title " Seder Rab Amram Gaon.

As an example, consider the familiar fact that the N ( 0, 1 ) distribution places 95 % of probability between − 1. 96 and 1. 96, and is symmetric around zero.

A study that Perry N. Halkitis conducted found that of the 448 men in this study who were familiar with barebacking, nearly half reported they had bareback sex in the last three months.

Most of these were parodies of familiar contemporary advertisements for real products, mimicking current commercials for such products as Big M or Four ' N Twenty Pies.

Making his Broadway debut in 1912 in Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton's The Whip, he became a familiar presence there, especially in sophisticated comedies such as W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle ( 1921 ), Vincent Lawrence's Sour Grapes ( 1926 ), Louis Verneuil's Jealousy ( 1928 ) and S. N. Behrman's Rain from Heaven ( 1934 ).

With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

Those familiar with his work will remember that he placed the incipience of the democratic faith at around 1850.

These new pictures focussed on the familiar and commonplace objects that he had heard the men in his prison camp talking about as the things they missed most, hence associated with the sense of lost freedom: the cafe at the corner, the newspaper kiosk, the girls in doorways and windows along the street, the golden-crusted French bread they lacked, the cigarettes denied them.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

I was familiar with Pilgrim's Progress, which I read as literature.

Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.

`` I am not familiar with the expression ''.

Certainly, the meaning is clearer to one who is not familiar with Biblical teachings, in the New English Bible which reads: `` Then Jesus arrived at Jordan from Galilee, and he came to John to be baptized by him.

Anyone familiar with the details of the McClellan hearings must at once realize that the sweetheart arrangements augmented employer profits far more than they augmented the earnings of the corruptible labor leaders.

So, walking in awe, he became familiar with God, who resided chiefly in Drew Centennial Church with its high steeple and clock.

A busy president, conversant with a problem and its ramifications and beset by pressures to meet deadlines, tends naturally to assume that others must be as familiar with a problem as he is.

Mr. Barcus spoke on the subject of scholarships for Juniors -- with which he is very familiar.

Our readers are familiar with the principles of sonar where sound waves are sent out in water and the echoes then indicate submerged objects.

At present, both the familiar cast acrylic and the newer extruded sheets are being used by sign manufacturers, with extruded now representing an estimated 10% of the total.

Readers of the Reader's Digest are familiar with such items which often appear in its lists of verbal slips, like the ad in a California paper that advertised `` House for rent.

The reader should be familiar enough with projections by now so that he sees that Af and in general that Af.

By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.

All applicants were generally familiar with the work of the receptionist.

Even beginning students in linguistics are made familiar with an appreciable variety of consonant systems, both in their general outlines and in many specific details.

The old way of doing things, which depended on a relatively stable community with stable ideas dealing with familiar situations, was no longer adequate to the task.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

that nowadays all honeymooners are thoroughly familiar with the best sex-manuals and know enough from talk with friends and personal experimentation to take all the anxiety and hazards out of the situation.