George Sand, Marianne

Marianne Winder

The unexpected death of Marianne Winder occurred peacefully in London on 6 April 2001 following a short illness. For over thirty years Marianne Winder had been associated with the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, first as Assistant Librarian then as Curator of Oriental MSS and Printed Books and, finally, as Consultant in Tibetan Medicine. Marianne Winder was born i...

INGE ALFERINK and MARIANNE GULLBERG

George

not much worried whether they be right or wrong. His desire to be the center of attraction may lead him to do things considered irrational when viewed from other angles. If he is in the upper 10 per cent of his class at school, it might be well to advance him to the next grade, provided he is sufficiently interested to show that he is capable of doing the work. If convenient, the teacher should...

George Kachergis: George Kachergis Doctoral Dissertation

Language acquisition is a ubiquitous, challenging problem involving fundamental cognitive abilities of attention, learning, and memory. From infants to adult travelers, language learners are faced with figuring out which words refer to which referents from situations that contain many words and referents. By remembering the words and referents (e.g., objects) that co-occur most frequently over ...

George Polya

The undisputed father of mathematical problem solving is George Pólya (December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985), one of the giants of classical analysis in the 20 century. He considered solving problems to be a practical art, one that can be taught and learned. His books on the subject How To Solve It (1945) and the two-volume set Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning (1954), and Mathematical Disco...