Spirit of the Dead Watching her fear. Mathews says it is too simple to attribute Tehura's terror to her belief in spirits and irrational fear of the dark; she says, following Sweetman, that Gauguin's sexual predilections should not be ignored when trying to understand the work. Rather, she suggests the girl's fear was a response to Gauguin's aggressive behavior, consistent with his known battering (so says Mathews) of his wife Mette, the submissive fear in her eyes his erotic reward. Stephen F. Eisenman, professor of Art History at Northwestern University, suggests the painting and its narrative is "a veritable encyclopaedia of colonial racism and misogyny".
Irrational number A stronger result is the following: Every rational number in the interval formula_23 can be written either as "a" for some irrational number "a" or as "n" for some natural number "n". Similarly, every positive rational number can be written either as formula_24 for some irrational number "a" or as formula_25 for some natural number "n". It is not known if formula_26 (or formula_27) is irrational. In fact, there is no pair of non-zero integers formula_28 for which it is known whether formula_29 is irrational. Moreover, it is not known whether or not the set formula_30 is algebraically independent over