Book Review: "Swami Abhishiktananda: His Life Told Through His Letters"

Book Review Ernst Zermelo: An Approach to His Life andWork

Ernst Zermelo is familiar to mathematicians as the creator of the controversial Axiom of Choice in 1904 and the theorem, based on the Axiom of Choice, that every set can be well ordered. Many will be aware that in 1908 he axiomatized set theory—in a form later modified by Abraham Fraenkel (1922) and then by Zermelo himself (1930). Some will know of Zermelo’s conflict with Ludwig Boltzmann over ...

Homer, His Art and His World [Review]

Mark Antonacci's Reply to Ray Rogers' Review of His Book

A fuller account of the scientific experiments involving particle radiation and linen cloth that explains the medieval dating of the Shroud along with all the known chemical and molecular effects of the Shroud’s body image can be found on the proposal on my website www.resurrectionoftheshroud.com/Information/proposal11.html These scientific experiments along with numerous other scientific, medi...

Leonhard Euler His Life, The Man, and His Work

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Euler’s birth (on April 15), an attempt is made to bring Euler’s genius to the attention of a broad segment of the educated public. The three stations of his life—Basel, St. Petersburg, and Berlin—are sketched and the principal works identified in more or less chronological order. To convey a flavor of his work and its impact on modern science, a sele...

Osler and his Australian associations--Part 1: During his life.

The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025729X 6/20 December 2010 193 11/12 686-689 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2010 www.mja.com.au History Sir William’s grandfather, Edward Osler, was Featherstone (William Osler’s father) and brother whose children scattered to the United States, Sou Australia. Indeed, Harvey Cushing, the contempo neurosurgeon and Osler’s biographer, stated that he h of...