Aleksandr Lyapunov: remembered by his contemporaries

Morality and Literature (Charles Dickens and his English Contemporaries)

A Synopsis of the Book Alan Turing and his Contemporaries: Building the World's First Computers

Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the development of digital computers. By 1955 computers produced by companies such as Ferranti, English Electric, Elliott Brothers and the British Tabulating Machine Co. had begun to appear in the market-place. The Information Age was dawning and Alan Turing and his conte...

morality and literature (charles dickens and his english contemporaries)

examiningg the lilemry works of charls diceens, william makepmce thacktrqy, george elliot and thomas harq)•, the a11thor produces a momic of the victorimr morality in 19th centery e11gla11d. the author comes to tbe concluion that the viaorian age was not as pnritan as it is usually imagined and tlu moral problems that bumankind deals with in the cosrse of its developmml art in their e.mnce 1111...

Ethiopian Macroeconomic Modeling in Historical Perspective: Bringing Gebre-Hiwot and His Contemporaries to Ethiopian Macroeconomics Realm

Much of the macroeconomic analysis in Ethiopia is hardly linked to the country’s pioneer development thinkers. The latter, however, articulated the Ethiopian development problems and what should be the appropriate policy direction to address them nearly a century ago. This articulated development thinkers of the early 20 th century Ethiopia had captured the imagination of prominent Ethiopian hi...

Marie Curie and Her Contemporaries

Marie Curie was Polish born, her maiden name was Sklodowska. Her father was a high school teacher, an able physicist; her mother was a teacher as well. They were keen patriots and most unhappy about the sad fate of their fatherland. Poland was under the heel of tsarist Russia. Supervisors were sent from Moscow to verify if the school children were brought up as Russian patriots and were taught ...