Prof. J. T. Patterson

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6 . 042 J / 18 . 062 J , Fall ’ 05 : Mathematics for Computer Science October 3 Prof . Albert

A 1994 University of Chicago study entitled The Social Organization of Sexuality found that on average men have 74% more opposite­gender partners than women, confirming a view that men are more promiscuous. But whoever reported this finding was lying or confused! We’ll show you how to use the properties of vertex degrees in a graph to prove this. Let’s recast opposite­gender partnering in graph...

Paul Patterson: In Memoriam

Caltech neuroscientist Paul Patterson, whose career spanned developmental neurobiology, behavioral neuroscience, and neuroimmunology, passed away on June 25 at the age of 70 from an aggressive brain tumor. Patterson was a pioneer and an iconoclast who was not afraid to work outside of the scientific mainstream; consequently, he made a number of important and seminal contributions that opened up...

. Stansfield , Jessica E . Rodriguez , David J . Glass and Cam Patterson Monte

Patterson-Wiedemann construction revisited

In 1983, Patterson and Wiedemann constructed Boolean functions on n = 15 input variables having nonlinearity strictly greater than 2n−1−2 n−1 2 . Construction of Boolean functions on odd number of variables with such high nonlinearity was not known earlier and also till date no other construction method of such functions are known. We note that the PattersonWiedemann construction can be underst...