Obituary: Mikhail Birman, 17.01.1928 - 2.07.2009

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Mrs. Meiklejohn, of St. Paul's, Upper Maze M, Ston January 29th. Her life was spent for the weitare ? many parents could testify to the devotion w i ^ defective children, and She was the first to realise the special _n country. For many years she she opened the first home for such children in defective children, and of was the Principal of this home, and of a home 10 wQmen> another home for dif...

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Donkin was educated at Blackheath Proprietary School and thence went to Queen's College, Oxford, as an open scholar, graduating in the first class of the Classical Tripos. He graduated as M.B., Oxon, in 1873, and became a F.R.C.P. Lon. in 1880, and during his active professional life held many important appointments and was Harveian Orator in 1910. He was physician and lecturer on Medicine at W...

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Mikhail Ershov And

We establish a new spectral criterion for Kazhdan's property (T) which is applicable to a large class of discrete groups defined by generators and relations. As the main application, we prove property (T) for the groups ELn(R), where n ≥ 3 and R is an arbitrary finitely generated associative ring. We also strengthen some of the results on property (T) for Kac-Moody groups from [DJ].