Ruth Jackson, MD, 1902–1994

4 June 2001 − Ruth

STYLES OF RATIONALITY Ruth

By whatever general principles and mechanisms animal behavior is governed, human behavior control rides piggyback on top of the same or very similar mechanisms. We have reflexes. We can be conditioned. The movements that make up our smaller actions are mostly caught up in perception-action cycles following perceived Gibsonian affordances. Still, without doubt there are levels of behavior contro...

Robert Wilson Jackson, OC, MD, FRCS, FRCSC, FRCS(Ed): a conversation with the editor. Interview by William Clifford Roberts.

Robert Jackson (Figure 1) was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1932 and grew up there. He received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1956. After a rotating internship, he did a year of research in the orthopaedic surgery department at one of the hospitals connected to the University of Toronto; for his work during that year on the proper management of fractures of the tibia, he re...

Jackson on Approximation 501 Dunham Jackson on Approximation

The Theory of Approximation. By Dunham Jackson. New York (American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications, Volume 11), published by this Society, 1930. v+178 pp. In 1885 Weierstrass announced his now famous theorem: Any continuous function j•(#)> defined over a finite interval (a, b), can be approximated in (a, b) uniformly and indefinitely by a sequence of polynomials Pn(x), whose degree...

Baillarger and Jackson: the principle of Baillarger-Jackson in aphasia.

For a French neurologist whose neurological training has been carried out at the school of the Salpetriere, Paris, Queen Square seems to be, in a certain way, London's Salpetriere. This assumption may be partly true, since these two famous hospitals have been for years dedicated to the nursing and to the study of the diseases of the nervous system, and both have a rich and peculiar tradition an...