OBITUARY: Rudolf Peierls (1907á¤-95)

Obituary for Professor Rudolf Emil Kalman

Professor Rudolf E. Kalman, formerly graduate research professor and director of the Center for Mathematical System Theory at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida and the chair for Mathematical SystemTheory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland passed away peacefully in the morning of July 2, 2016, at his home in Gainesville, Florida. He was 86 y...

Rudolf Virchow

Virchow was one of the 19th century’s foremost leaders in medicine and pathology. He was also a public health activist, social reformer, politician, and anthropologist. Virchow was the only child of a farmer and city treasurer in Schivelbein, Germany. He had a strong interest in natural science. In 1839, he received a scholarship from the Prussian Military Academy, where he was given the opport...

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12 Rudolf Ahlswede ,

One of the basic results in extremal set theory was discovered in [1] and rediscovered in [2]: For a given number of k-element subsets of an n-set the shadow, that is, the set of ( k 1)-element subsets contained in at least one of the specified k-element subsets, is minimal, if the k-element subsets are chosen as an initial segment in the squashed order (see [10]; called colex order in [liD, th...

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