Professor Pankhurst and his Works. An Introductory Note

Leonhard Euler: His Life, the Man, and His Works

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary (on April 15, 2007) of Euler’s birth, an attempt is made to bring Euler’s genius to the attention of a broad segment of the educated public. The three stations of his life—Basel, St. Petersburg, and Berlin—are sketched and the principal works identified in more or less chronological order. To convey a flavor of his work and its impact on modern science, ...

An Overview of the Collected Works of Professor

He started elementary school in the Fall of 1940 and enjoyed a few months of school, when, suddenly, one morning in the Spring of 1941 a barrage of bombs engulfed the apartment house where his family resided; the Second World War arrived in Serbia, and especially Belgrade, with fury and destruction. For the next four years, his life and the life of his family would hang in the balance. Hunger, ...

Oliver Goldsmith. His life and works

Introductory note to 1928

Zermelo’s 1928 paper on measuring participants’ playing strengths in chess tournaments is a remarkable work in the history of paired comparison modeling. Apart from several contemporary papers by Thurstone (1927a, 1927b, 1927c), Zermelo’s paper was an isolated excursion into paired comparison methods that was far ahead of its time. After this paper, the field remained mostly dormant for about 2...

Introductory note to s1930e

In this note found in the Nachlass, Zermelo describes his ideas in 1930 on the construction of a model of set theory and, with it, the consistency of set theory. As such, the note provides details on the first two topics that Zermelo had listed in the appendix, “Synopsis of further investigations currently in preparation”, of his report s1930d to the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft f...