Herbert S. Bridge

Herbert S . Wilf ( 1931 – 2012 )

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/noti1247 received both the Steele Prize for Seminal Contributions to Research (from the AMS, 1998) and the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished Teaching (from the MAA, 1996). During his long tenure at Penn he advised twenty-six PhD students and won additional awards, including the Christian and Mary Lindback Award for excellence in undergradua...

Dancing at gunpoint . A review of Herbert Gintis ’ s

Dancing at gunpoint. A review of Herbert Gintis's The bounds of reason: game theory and the unification of the behavioral sciences. The bounds of reason seeks to accomplish many things. It introduces epistemic game theory, discusses other-regarding preferences in games, offers an evolutionary model of property rights, and proposes a plan to unify the behavioural sciences. Most notably, it is a ...

Herbert Thoms

The eventful chapters of contemporaneous medical history in Connecticut have not yet received the historian's scrutiny and are still only records scattered here and there in organization archives and miscellaneous correspondence. Many of us have been a part of these events and as participants are poorly qualified to place values on them. As in all history, one must await the developing vista of...

Herbert Herbert: his corneal pits and scleral slits.

PURPOSE To evaluate the life and professional work of the English ophthalmologist Herbert Herbert (1865-1942). DESIGN Historical study. METHODS The main sources for this investigation are Herbert's approximately 65 published papers and 3 monographs. Other sources are contemporary publications by other ophthalmologists and secondary historical reviews of this period. Written communications w...

Herbert King Thoms