A people is a group of individuals who belong to and function within a particular society. In common usage, the term people may be synonymous with human, or otherwise may carry an exclusive meaning. In general, the word people is a collective noun used to define a specific group of humans. However, when used to refer to a group of humans possessing a common ethnic, cultural or national unitary characteristic or identity, "people" is a singular noun, and as such takes an "s" in the plural; (example: "the English-speaking peoples of the world").
The concept of personhood (who is a person within a society) is the fundamental component of any selective concept of people. A distinction is maintained in philosophy and law between the notions "human being", or "man", and "person". The former refers to the species, while the latter refers to a rational agent (see, for example, John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding II 27 and Immanuel Kant's Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals).
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Bailey, Rosemary A. - Queen Mary, University of London. Experimental designs, statistics. Publications, teaching material.
Banos, Raul - University of Almeria. Optimization in complex problems and heuristics.
Bergeron, Nantel - York University, Toronto. Algebraic combinatorics.
Bierbrauer, Juergen - Michigan Technological University. Discrete Mathematics and its interactions with Geometry, Cryptology and Algorithms.
Cameron, Peter - Queen Mary University of London. Permutation groups, and the (finite or infinite) structures on which they act.
Meta Description: [ Peter Cameron's home page, with
material on permutation groups, combinatorics, and related
areas and information about research in these areas at Queen Mary,
University of London ]
Chvátal, Vašek - Homepage of Vašek Chvátal (at Concordia). Includes research information, papers, and problems.
Cooper, Joshua - Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU. Combinatorial problems arising in number theory, algebraic geometry and coding theory. Papers and preprints, talks and resources.
Meta Description: [ Josh Cooper's Homepage: Combinatorics Resources, Papers, Preprints, and Talks ]
Demaine, Erik - Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Combinatorics, theory of computation and algorithms.
Dobcsanyi, Peter - Queen Mary University of London. Design theory. Publications, LOWX software.
Frieze, Alan - Carnegie Mellon University. Probabilistic combinatorics and its applications in theoretical computer science and operations research.
Graham, Fan Chung - Homepage of Fan Chung Graham, including information on research interests, publications, a brief biography, and other subjects.
Gregory Gutin - Royal Holloway, University of London. Graph theory and algorithms, combinatorial optimisation, linear and integer programming.
Ivan Rival Memorial Website - Articles, list of papers, memorial speeches, photos and memorial sculpture of the late world leader in ordered sets and founder of the journal ORDER.
Jean-Yves Thibon - Algebraic Combinatorics - University of Marne-la-Vallée.
Leighton, Tom - Homepage of Tom Leighton (MIT). Includes biography, research interests, papers, and more.
McKay, Brendan - Australian National University. Combinatorics and software.
Morgan, John P. - Virginia Tech Department of Statistics. Experimental designs.
Nesetril, Jaroslav - Charles University, Prague. Ramsey theory.
Offer, Alan - Universiteit Gent. Finite geometry.
Meta Description: [ Homepage of Alan Offer at Universiteit Gent, Belgium. ]
Ossona de Mendez, Patrice - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Topological graph theory; Combinatorics; Pliant programming.
Pach, Janos - Courant Institute, New York. Combinatorial geometry.
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Propp, James - University of Wisconsin at Madison. Combinatorics, game theory, probability theory and dynamical systems. Preprint and teaching material.
Roch, Sebastien - University of California, Berkeley. Applied probability, theoretical computer science.
Said Amghibech - Homepage with list of publications and mathematics problems.
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Sloane, Neil James Alexander - Combinatorics, integer sequences, codes, sphere packings, graphs, lattices, Shannon Works.
Soicher, Leonard H. - Queen Mary University of London. Design theory, combinatorial computing.
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Spence, Ted - University of Glasgow. Classification of combinatorial designs.
Stout, Quentin - Discrete mathematics, statistics, algorithms, parallel computing.
Meta Description: [ Quentin Stout: computer scientist,
professor and consultant in parallel computing, supercomputing,
statistical and scientific computing, adaptive sampling designs,
algorithms, and other random things ]
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Thorsteinsson, Dr. Erlendur S. - Includes doctoral thesis, research papers, slides and contact information.
Meta Description: [ Erlendur S. Þorsteinsson / Erlendur S. Thorsteinsson / homepage / home page / blog / heimasíða / blogg / pistlar ]
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Vu, Van H. - University of California, San Diego. Probabilistic methods, sharp concentration phenomenon, random structures and algorithms, additive number theory, and algebraic methods in combinatorics. Publications, lecture notes.
Wesley Pegden - Home page concerning research in Combinatorics and Graph Theory with papers and open problems.
Meta Description: [ Wesley Pegden's homepage. Includes Research Interests (in mathematics), Publications, and Open Problems. ]
Wilf, Herbert - University of Pennsylvania. Combinatorics, texts available for download.
Zeilberger, Doron - Rutgers. Combinatorics, automatic formal identities proving. Preprints, articles, Maple software.
Zemor, Gilles - Ecole Ingenieur Telecom Paris. Combinatorial mathematics, coding theory, cryptography, additive number theory.
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