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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Acklam, Peter J. - Author of the PNM Toolbox and other utilities.
Alsberg, Bjørn K. - Author of the VRML Molecule Toolbox, the Gaussian Toolbox, the MORPHY Toolbox, the HTML Toolbox, and the LaTeX Toolbox.
Benamou, Jean-David - Author of GROLAB, a MATLAB GUI for easy interactive Ray Tracing in 2-D.
Drasco, Steve - MATLAB applied to human powered vehicles, radon, hamiltonian integrators, string theory, and gravity waves.
Higham, Nick - Manchester Centre for Computational Mathematics. Research Interests: Numerical linear algebra; Numerical analysis; Scientific computation. Author, with Desmond J. Higham, of MATLAB Guide (SIAM, August 2000).
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Nilsen, Jan Even Øie - Geophysical Institute, UiB. Lists routines for downloading.
Polking, John C. - Author of Ordinary Differential Equations using MATLAB. His page also has a small collection of useful educational programs available for download.
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Portegies Zwart, Joris - Includes a tutorial on using the Neural Network Toolbox and a function for sending email directly from MATLAB.
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