Paul A. Bishop memorial

Hazards of Cold Water—Paul Esser Memorial Lecture 1973

This is an annual lecture given in the University of Bristol 0,1 some subject connected with one of the Water sports, caving or mountaineering. It is in memory ?f Paul Esser, a medical student who lost his life while cave diving in Porth yr Ogof in February of 1971, and who was particularly interested in those sports. The lecturer is chosen by a panel of representatives from the student societi...

Paul Erdos Memorial Lecture: Linkage Folding: From Erdos to Proteins

Linkages have a long history ranging back to the 18th century in the quest for mechanical conversion between circular motion and linear motion, as needed in a steam engine. In 1877, Kempe wrote an entire book of such mechanisms for “drawing a straight line”. (In mathematical circles, Kempe is famous for an attempted proof of the Four-Color Theorem, whose main ideas persist in the current, corre...

A Bishop surface with a vanishing Bishop invariant

We derive a complete set of invariants for a formal Bishop surface near a point of complex tangent with a vanishing Bishop invariant under the action of formal transformations. We prove that the modular space of Bishop surfaces with a vanishing Bishop invariant and with a fixed Moser invariant s < ∞ is of infinite dimension. We also prove that the equivalence class of the germ of a generic real...

AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF PAUL EDWARD BISHOP for the DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Putting the “new” into New Trade Theory: Paul Krugman’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

This paper reviews the scientific contributions of Paul Krugman to the study of international trade, on the occasion of his receipt of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. A simplified exposition is presented of some of his principal findings, including: the effects of trade on firm scale and product diversity in a general model of monopolistic competition; the integration of monopolisti...