Valerie Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1033486 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerie Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerie |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Math Anxiety: Making Room to Breathe
Math Anxiety:Making Room to Breathe Valerie Allen (bio) and Todd Stambaugh (bio) "Don't do that to me, Professor," the student said, and everybody laughed, for by this late in the semester, the atmosphere was relaxed. The instructor in question had just reached the point in a worked problem when they could move from reasoning about specific numbers to stating a general principle: x≤y≤z, meaning that y—the value we sought—was always going to be gr…
To Measure Is to Feel: The Mathematics of Middle English Metric Relics
Christian devotion often focused on holy measurements such as those of Christ's height, side wound, and the nails that pierced him. This article focuses on ones occurring in English manuscripts, primarily from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century. The devout touched, kissed, beheld, and wore these measures, drawn scaled or life-sized, in expectation of protections in life or indulgences after death. These metric relics are considered …
Literature: Mathematics:: Tenor: Vehicle
The three books reviewed here engage with science or mathematics in literary studies. Neither term on its own exactly encompasses the range of Angus Fletcher’s topological analysis as well as Matth
The Way They Did Theory Then
In this article, I take sixteenth-century mathematics as a test case for considering at its most general level what doing theory entails. Ideally, doing theory aims to change rather than merely describe reality, and in order to do so, it represents that reality differently. Such transformations, I argue, need special techniques of representation. In early modern mathematics, two techniques in particular enable new theoretical content: symbolic no…
Road
The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English
Jody Enders, ed. The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. xv + 478 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978–08122–4323–9. - Volume 66 Issue 3
The pencil, the pin, the table, the bowl and the wheel
Se7en: Medieval Justice, Modern Justice
love letter''' to New York, the dirty, noisy metropolis in which he spent five years being miserable (Salisbury 86).On its streets, he watched the seven deadly sins performed daily, and they inspired the plot of a series of killings-each victim him or herself the perpetrator of a sin.Detective William Somerset, about to retire, teams up to solve the case with his young, idealistic replacement, David Mills.On the run after the detectives' lucky st…
On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)
This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the 'paterna
The Senses in Late Medieval England . C. M. Woolgar
Integrating Distinctively Canadian Elements into Television Drama: A Formula for Success or Failure?: The Due South Experience
The production of indigenous Canadian television drama, despite cultural importance ascribed to the genre, has been continually beset by funding and other problems. This situation prompted Canadian producers to concentrate upon the production of so-called industrial dramas that attempt to minimize or completely mask their Canadian origins and are designed primarily for the export market. There have been exceptions - North of 60, Black Harbour, Du…
The Shadow of the Parthenon. Studies in Ancient History and' Literature
The Shadow of the Parthenon. Studies in Ancient History and' Literature
Integrating Distinctively Canadian Elements into Television Drama: A Formula for Success or Failure?: The Due South Experience
The production of indigenous Canadian television drama, despite cultural importance ascribed to the genre, has been continually beset by funding and other problems. This situation prompted Canadian producers to concentrate upon the production of so-called industrial dramas that attempt to minimize or completely mask their Canadian origins and are designed primarily for the export market. There have been exceptions - North of 60, Black Harbour, Du…
The Senses in Late Medieval England . C. M. Woolgar
The pencil, the pin, the table, the bowl and the wheel
Se7en: Medieval Justice, Modern Justice
love letter''' to New York, the dirty, noisy metropolis in which he spent five years being miserable (Salisbury 86).On its streets, he watched the seven deadly sins performed daily, and they inspired the plot of a series of killings-each victim him or herself the perpetrator of a sin.Detective William Somerset, about to retire, teams up to solve the case with his young, idealistic replacement, David Mills.On the run after the detectives' lucky st…
On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages (The New Middle Ages)
This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the 'paterna
Road
The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English
Jody Enders, ed. The Farce of the Fart and Other Ribaldries: Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. xv + 478 pp. $49.95. ISBN: 978–08122–4323–9. - Volume 66 Issue 3
Literature: Mathematics:: Tenor: Vehicle
The three books reviewed here engage with science or mathematics in literary studies. Neither term on its own exactly encompasses the range of Angus Fletcher’s topological analysis as well as Matth
The Way They Did Theory Then
In this article, I take sixteenth-century mathematics as a test case for considering at its most general level what doing theory entails. Ideally, doing theory aims to change rather than merely describe reality, and in order to do so, it represents that reality differently. Such transformations, I argue, need special techniques of representation. In early modern mathematics, two techniques in particular enable new theoretical content: symbolic no…
To Measure Is to Feel: The Mathematics of Middle English Metric Relics
Christian devotion often focused on holy measurements such as those of Christ's height, side wound, and the nails that pierced him. This article focuses on ones occurring in English manuscripts, primarily from the late fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century. The devout touched, kissed, beheld, and wore these measures, drawn scaled or life-sized, in expectation of protections in life or indulgences after death. These metric relics are considered …
Math Anxiety: Making Room to Breathe
Math Anxiety:Making Room to Breathe Valerie Allen (bio) and Todd Stambaugh (bio) "Don't do that to me, Professor," the student said, and everybody laughed, for by this late in the semester, the atmosphere was relaxed. The instructor in question had just reached the point in a worked problem when they could move from reasoning about specific numbers to stating a general principle: x≤y≤z, meaning that y—the value we sought—was always going to be gr…
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