And foster father of the Gyaunt dead ; His name Ignaro did his nature right aread

It must feel like herding cats, with 20-or-so members and with the big five franchise owning groups.

Shall wee force the general law of nature, which in all living creatures under heaven is seene to tremble at paine?

The contact geometry is in many ways an odd-dimensional counterpart of the symplectic geometry, a structure on certain even-dimensional manifolds. The concepts of contact geometry and symplectic geometry are both motivated by the mathematical formalism of classical mechanics, where one can consider either the even-dimensional phase space of a mechanical system or the constant-energy hypersurface, which, being of codimension 1, has odd dimension.