My first year: How I became a confident teacher

How My Graph Became a Dot

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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...

How I nearly became a Marlboro man.

Matti Eklund ON HOW LOGIC BECAME FIRST-ORDER

The logical systems within which Frege, Schröder, Russell, Zermelo and other early mathematical logicians worked were all higher-order. It was not until the 1910s that first-order logic was even distinguished as a subsystem of higher-order logic. As late as in the 1920s, higherorder quantification was still quite generally allowed: in fact, it does not seem as if any major logician, among non-i...

How autism became autism

This article argues that the meaning of the word 'autism' experienced a radical shift in the early 1960s in Britain which was contemporaneous with a growth in epidemiological and statistical studies in child psychiatry. The first part of the article explores how 'autism' was used as a category to describe hallucinations and unconscious fantasy life in infants through the work of significant chi...