Ira Herskowitz (1946–2003)

Obituary: Ira Herskowitz

Jasper Rine pays tribute to a distinguished career spanning several fields and a personality that was a legend among the many great teachers at UCSF.

Ira Herskowitz (1946–2003)

breadth and the intensity of Ira's interests. It also revealed Photo courtesy of Kay Chernush. his modus operandi: using simple genetics to ask and answer big questions. transduction by studying crosstalk between pathways, In 1971, in his last year of graduate school, Ira accepted and examined sporulation as a developmental program. an Assistant Professorship in the University of Oregon's Recen...

Anecdotal , Historical and Critical Commentaries on Genetics Edited by James F . Crow and William F . Dove Ira Herskowitz : 1946 – 2003

AS a rule, we geneticists do not pay very much attention posed while the twins were still students. He also wrote his own songs, which contained perceptive and witty to intellectual history. Occasionally something happens that causes us to think, if only briefly, about the vignettes of life in the major leagues of academic science in the late twentieth century. Ira occasionally performed intell...

Ira Gerhardt

SYMMETRIC INCLUSION - EXCLUSION Ira

One form of the inclusion-exclusion principle asserts that if A and B are functions of finite sets then the formulas A(S) = ∑ T⊆S B(T ) and B(S) = ∑ T⊆S(−1) |A(T ) are equivalent. If we replace B(S) by (−1)|S|B(S) then these formulas take on the symmetric form A(S) = ∑