Interview of Stanley Fischer

Maintaining Price Stability - Finance & Development - December 1996 - Stanley Fischer

HE FUNDAMENTAL task of the central bank is to preserve the value of the currency. The understanding of the centrality of price stability has evolved over the years, and it is worthwhile to review selectively recent developments in thinking about this aspect of the role of the central bank, with an emphasis on unsettled and controversial issues. As long as countries adhered to the gold standard,...

Stanley Depth of Multigraded Modules

The Stanley’s Conjecture on Cohen-Macaulay multigraded modules is studied especially in dimension 2. In codimension 2 similar results were obtained by Herzog, Soleyman-Jahan and Yassemi. As a consequence of our results Stanley’s Conjecture holds in 5 variables.

Bounds of Stanley depth

We answer positively a question of Asia Rauf for the case of intersections of three prime ideals generated by disjoint sets of variables and we present several inequalities on Stanley depth. This is a detailed presentation of our talk at the conference on ”Fundamental structures of algebra” in honor of Prof. Serban Basarab at his 70-th anniversary. Let S = K[x1, . . . , xn] be a polynomial alge...

Using Stanley Cavell

Stanley J. Korsmeyer

The scientific community has been saddened and diminished by the loss of Stanley J. Korsmeyer, M.D., who died of lung cancer last month at the age of 54. Over the last 25 years, Korsmeyer had been an international leader in the fields of cancer biology and programmed cell death (apoptosis). Through his studies of apoptosis, Korsmeyer helped revolutionize our concepts of carcinogenesis. Korsmeye...