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Proof (play)Proof is a play by David Auburn[?] which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2001 Tony Award for Best Play.It concerns the daughter of a recently-deceased professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago and her struggle with mathematical genius and mental illness. The daughter had cared for her father through a lengthy mental illness; upon his death, a paradigm-shifting proof was found in his office. The title refers both to that proof and to the play's central question: Can the daughter prove the proof's authorship? In the Recent we may
the fossil.html">fossil mammalia are of living species; in the Pleistocene those
considerable one, of the accompanying fossil quadrupeds belongs to
of demarcation between the Newer Pliocene and Pleistocene, or
these difficulties to increase rather than diminish with every
in the series.html">series of geological records.
The annexed tabular view (Table 1/1) of the whole series of
chronological relation of the Recent and Pleistocene to the
TABLE 1/1. STRATIFIED ROCKS.
KAINOZOIC OR TERTIARY:
Pliocene.
Oligocene.
Cretaceous.
Triassic.
PALAEOZOIC OR PRIMARY:
Carboniferous.
Silurian.
Cambrian.
PRECAMBRIAN OR ARCHAEAN.
Restored by Dr. F. Keller, partly from Dumont D'Urville's
Remains of three Periods of Vegetation in the peat.html">peat.html">Peat.
Shell-Mounds or ancient Refuse-Heaps of the Danish Islands.
since their Origin.
Human Skulls of the same Period.
Stone and Bronze Implements found in them.
Remains of Mammalia, wild and domesticated.
Chronological Computations of the Date of the Bronze and
Lake-Dwellings, or artificial Islands called "Crannoges,"
earth which have taken place in comparatively modern times, I have
peat, and explained under what conditions the growth of that
late years, since I first alluded to the subject, more extensive
peat-mosses. Of the results of these inquiries I shall give a. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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