HOW A MONSTER BECAME A PRINCESS: CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

How I became a biochemist.

It was a sunny September day in a Madrid that had started to grow after years of stagnation, when I entered a modern red brick building at the corner of Velázquez and Joaquín Costa streets. I had an appointment with someone unknown to me, but whom I had been told was an important enzymologist. I was far from imagining that the encounter with that person would determine my future scientific life...

The ''Princess and Monster'' Game on an Interval

A minimizing Searcher S and a maximizing Hider H move at unit speed on a closed interval until the first (capture, or payoff ) time T = min {t : S (t) = H(t)} that they meet. This zerosum Princess and Monster Game or less colorfully Search Game With Mobile Hider was proposed by Rufus Isaacs for general networks Q. While the existence and finiteness of the value V = V (Q) has been established fo...

How a real housewife became an astrobiologist.

In 1987, with three children, all sons under the age of 10, a husband who lost his job in the oil bust of Houston, and a family that needed money, I found myself at the local public school employed as a teacher’s aide. I made $742 a month. At the end of the year, I had the obligatory review of my work. The principal was demanding and was considered somewhat difficult. However, she offered some ...

How My Graph Became a Dot

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How I nearly became a Marlboro man.