Donald R. Bender 1934-1969

Letters 1934..1934

Sir, With interest we read the editorial by Wolf on obesity as a renal risk factor [1]. We fully support the author’s view that overweight and insulin resistance, as mediators of renal risk, deserve attention not only in morbidly obese patients with overt insulin resistance, but also in renal patients with less severe obesity. Recent data from our group suggest that the impact of overweight and...

Gender bender

“When it comes to sperm, you’re half the man your grandfather was”, the Esquire magazine headline proclaimed earlier this year. It’s the next Silent Spring, U.S. News and World Report declared, reflecting the views of U.S. Vice President Albert Gore. “Hormonal Sabotage” declared Natural History magazine, in a headline stretched across two pages. What’s behind all the fuss? Well, apparently huma...

Myron Lee Bender

Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences.

SUNY Stony Brook bender

Traditional INSERTION SORT runs in O(n) time because each insertion takes O(n) time. When people run INSERTION SORT in the physical world, they leave gaps between items to accelerate insertions. Gaps help in computers as well. This paper shows that GAPPED INSERTION SORT has insertion times of O(logn) with high probability, yielding a total running time of O(n logn) with high probability.

Detlev Bronk, 1934