Author Archives: Stefan Jaeger

Yin-Yang Symbol

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Stefan Jaeger

In case you ever wondered where the Yin-Yang symbol comes from, see my paper entitled A Geomedical Approach to Chinese Medicine: The Origin of the Yin-Yang Symbol, which is a chapter in a book on the recent advances in Chinese Medicine. Most … Continue reading →

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Season’s Greetings

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Stefan Jaeger

I want to thank my readers, friends and followers for their support over the last year. Each and every discussion we had was a delight and has encouraged me in my endeavor. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Natural Numbers

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Stefan Jaeger

In my last post, I argued that intrinsic uncertainty between existing and non-existing objects should be incorporated into today’s mathematics, and I wondered about the best place to do so. Being a fundamental concept, intrinsic uncertainty should be part of the … Continue reading →

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Intrinsic Uncertainty

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Stefan Jaeger

As promised, I would like to pick up where I left off some time ago, when I discussed the Butterfly Dream. I mentioned that, in my opinion, the Butterfly Dream describes the dual concept of existence vs non-existence.  I opined that … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Stefan Jaeger

I wish all my friends and colleagues a happy and safe Thanksgiving.

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Tuberculosis Screening

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Stefan Jaeger

The current issue of the SPIE Newsletter features an article about our image-processing software for chest x-ray examination. The article gives a short overview of our TB screening project and highlights some of the processing steps, such as nodule detection. Here … Continue reading →

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The Butterfly Dream

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Stefan Jaeger

The butterfly dream is one of the most well-known text passages of Chinese Philosophy. It was written (dreamed) by Chuang Tzu, who lived around the 4th century BCE and who was, together with Lao Tzu, one of the great Taoist philosophers. The … Continue reading →

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P/NP Problem

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Stefan Jaeger

I posted a paper about my solution to the P/NP problem on arXiv this week: arXiv:1104.2538v1 The key idea making this paper different from other approaches is that the relationship between the complexity classes P and NP depends on the definition of the … Continue reading →

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Budget Deal

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Stefan Jaeger

Phew. The budget deal seems to be home and dry. Unbelievable isn’t it? Can someone take away this toy from the politicians, please? Using the government and its research to blackmail political opponents sounds insane to me. The National Library of Medicine, … Continue reading →

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World Tuberculosis Day

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Stefan Jaeger

Today is World TB Day, commemorating the discovery of the TB bacillus by Robert Koch in 1882. The web portal of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has more information on tuberculosis (see also the TB web … Continue reading →

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